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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

First— Learn Control of Ball By Denton T. ("Cy") Young..... o,.. 3 

Concerning the Body Swing By Christopher Mathewson.. ..... o o o o B 

How to Pitch an Inshoot By Grover Cleveland Alexander. ..... 1 

Make Everything Tell and Don't) „ ,,r ,. t u o 

,, . r By Walter Johnson 8 

Waste Your Arm > 

Regarding Speed By Joe Wood 11 

How to Pitch the Outcurve By Otis Crandall 13 

Strength and Endurance Needed By Edward Walsh 15 

Value of the Drop Ball By John Coombs 17 

The "Spit Ball" By John Chesbro 20 

Pitching to the Batter By Richard Marquard 21 

Getting the Ball Over the Plate By Charles Tesreau 25 

Pitching to a Target By " Nap " Rucker 28 

Pitching the Cross Fire By Earl Moore 29 

To the Left-Handers By Roy Collins 31 

When Runners are on Bases By John Powell >. 32 

Work with the Catcher By John T. ("Chief") Meyers 33 

How to Make a Batter do Whj# You) „ . ,, , ^ , 

Want Him to Do ; By Albert Orth 35 

How to Pitch a Drop By Thomas Hughes • 36 

Pitchers Must Be Good Fielders By John McGraw 37 

The Pitcher as a Fielder By George Wiltse 39 

How to Pitch the Raise Ball By Joseph McGinnity 41 

Take Good Care of Your Arm By Frank Dwyer , 48 

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FIRST- LEARN CONTROL OF BALL 

By Denton T. C'Cy") Young, 

Now Retired After a Continuous Record as a Major League 

Pitcher from 1891 to 191 1, inclusive. 

Denton T. Young, whose marvelous no-hit and no-run game 
pitched for the Boston American League club during the season 
of 1904, followed by another no-hit and no-run game in 1908, 
but one player reaching first base, established him as one of the 
greatest men who ever placed his foot against the pitcher's 
plate ; whose term of service has been so long that he enjoys 
the greatest reputation of any pitcher for continued good work 
in the box, is one of the pitchers who has seldom been troubled 
with wildness, and his remarks upon accuracy in pitching are 
especially valuable. 

There are young players in base ball who have what might be 
called natural control. Before they picked up a base ball for the 
first time, I venture to say that they could throw stones and 
pebbles more accurately than their companions, even if they were 
not able to throw them so far. Possibly every other boy in the 
neighborhood could throw a green apple swifter, but it was this 
particular boy, with his greater accuracy, who hit the mark. 

That is what I call natural control, and the moment that boy 
begins to practice pitching, if he should, it will be found that he 
keeps the ball near the plate all the time, and that he is effective 
against other teams, much to the surprise of his companions, who 
note that he is not a swift thrower nor a long-distance thrower. 

Every boy, who tries to become a pitcher, should make an 
effort to secure the same control of a ha.\\ as this boy has with his 
natural gift of accuracy. Speed is decidedly a bad qualification 
for pitching unless accuracy goes with it. That is why so many 
slow pitchers are successful in professional base ball. Speed that 
gives bases on balls is equivalent to giving base hits, and to permit 
hits to be made is the first step t(/vard defeat. 

To obtain this control of the ball, which is so essential to suc- 
cess, there is nothing to my mind like practice. It is not neces- 
sary that one should paint out ? white spot on some dark back- 
ground and throw at it until tired. I know of young pitchers 
who have tried that sort of thing, and it always amused me. The 
most that it did was to accustom them to hitting with some 
accuracy a stationary target. A batter is not a stationary target, 
hence the worthlessness of such practice. 

I would have a young player, even if he possesses some natural 



4 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

control, and surely if he possesses none, pitch to a catcher over 
an improvised plate. Better still, if he can get somebody to be 
the batter while he remains pitcher all the time. 

Providing it is not possible to get any one to act as batter, be 
sure to have the plate — a piece of board the proper size will do — 
and the catcher behind it. The catcher should sign for a high 
ball and a low ball, and whether the beginner knows much about 
curving the ball or not, he should be asked to put it first to one 
side of the plate and then to the other to improve his accuracy. 

Young players will be astonished to see how much this simple 
practice will do to assist their efficiency. After awhile they 
will quite unconsciously copy the cross-fire of which so much is 
heard nowadays. Cross-fire is only the ability of the pitcher to 
direct the ball across home base on a certain angle between the 
pitcher and the plate. 

My advice would be not to try to use speed while this practice 
is going on because that is wearing on the arm. Merely get the 
ball to the plate with sufficient force to cause it to come within 
the batter's reach, at a certain point which the pitcher had in 
mind when he permitted the ball to leave his hand. 

Young players may have watched the professionals warm up 
before the game, and no doubt have seen the catcher drop his 
glove in front of him to act as a temporary base. The warming 
up is not so much to develop the speed in the pitcher's arm, 
which would be bound to come out in an inning or so, as it is to 
get the arm trained to do what the pitcher wants it to do. 

I did not give a base on balls in the game in which I allowed 
no hits and no runs to be made, and I knew almost from the 
very first ball which left my hand that afternoon that I should be 
able to put the ball exactly where I wanted to. I should advise 
all young pitchers to seek the same result. It may take a long 
time to succeed, but there is likely to come a day when the 
pitcher suddenly discovers that he has got control at last, and 
from that moment he is the master of the batter and need have 
little to fear as to his future. 

Having learned accuracy in the delivery of the ball, the next 
thing is to master the curves. Some may have thought that it 
was essential to know how tG curve a ball before anything else. 
Experience, to my mind, teaches to the contrary in this respect. 

Any young player, who has good control of the ball, will 
become a successful curve pitcher long before the beginner who 
is endeavoring to master both curves and control at the same 
time. The curve is merely an accessory to control. Witness 
how many good pitchers there were before the curved ball was 
heard of and how many there are now who employ straight balls 
as much as they do curves in their work. 



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CONCERNING THE BODY SWING 

By Christopher Mathewson. 

Having learned to control the ball, and having mastered the 
rudiments of the curves, there is another matter to be considered 
that has been overlooked by young pitchers until recent years. In 
fact, it is only within two or three years that it has been given 
any study, and there is no question that if some of the "old- 
timers" had considered it more carefully they would have been far 
better off and unquestionably would have lasted longer in the box. 

This subject is that of the body swing. 

Beginning with the earliest days, pitchers undertook their task 
literally from the definition of the word, and were pitchers in 
reality, compelling the arm to do all the work. The earliest 
pitching delivery permissible under the rules may have rendered 
that partially necessary, but the. demands made upon the pitcher 
now would quickly terminate the career of any young player who 
would trust to his arm and nothing more to be successful. 

No matter whether pitching an outcurve, an inshoot or a drop, 
remember that the body may be made to do at least two-thirds of 
the work. Don't think this statement an exaggeration, for it 
isn't. Every pitcher nowadays is finding the truth contained in 
that assertion, and how seldom it is that you see a pitcher delib- 
erately standing with both feet flat on the ground, merely drawing 
.ihis arm back and throwing with all the force in his biceps, while 
his back and shoulder muscles are not called upon to meet their 
full share of the exertion. 

When ready to deliver the ball to the batter, as the pitcher 
-draws his arm up, he should bend his body in unison with the 
motion. For instance, suppose that you are going to pitch a 
<Irop ball and employ a long swing to do so. As your arm goes 
up and back, let your body bend from the centre backward. 

The moment that you have reached your proper poise — that 
position where your arm and hand are in correct alignment with 
the plate to give what you think will be the correct direction to 
the flight of the ball — come forward, not only with your arm, but 
with all the weight of your body. You will find that when you 
release the ball, your arm, after all, has done little but guide the 
ball, and that most of the speed was obtained by the tremendous 
force that was exercised by the muscles in your back and shoulder. 

All other curves and the straight ball call for the same treat- 
ment. Some pitchers seem to get extra speed by "winding up" 




MATHEWS0N;S *: fadeaway -^-No. l shows how bail is grasped for start of 
the hadeaway. No 2 shows the ball leaving the hand as it gets the final twist of 
the wrist for the Fadeaway. No. 3 shows how the ball is held to pitch Matty's 
slow ball, f- or the Fadeaway the ball is held lighdy with the forefingers and 
thumb, and a slow twist is given to it. When mixed in with a speedy straight or 
m-ball It causes the batter to often strike at it before it reaches him. It is a "teaser** 
for the third strike. 



SFAI.DINGS ATilJLETlU LIBRARY. 7 

their arms around their heads. Occasionally an additional snap 
mav be gained by this practice, but it has been my experience 
that the real relief to the arm, and the actual power that is desir- 
able as a pitcher, are obtained by making the body do its just 
share of the work. 

Don't think that it will in any way effect good control. It is 
just as easy, or easier, to pitch with a body swing than it is with- 
out it, and the chances are that pitchers who rely upon speed 
more than anything else, will last much longer in the box if they 
divide the work so that the arm is not compelled to bear the 
brunt of a task which belongs to the back and shoulders as well. 



HOW TO PITCH AN INSHOOT 

By Grover Cleveland Alexander. 

Only one or two pitchers have been able to pitch what might 
be termed a real incurve. As a rule they are left-handers and 
what are best known in base ball as "phenomenal" pitchers. 

All pitchers can learn to throw an inshoot. To left-handers it 
is often the natural manner of delivering the ball. Grasp the ball 
with the first three fingers and the thumb. Hold it firmly. Speed 
is necessary for an inshoot. Keep the hand in an upright position. 
When the ball is released from the hand let it go over the tips of 
the fingers and use a lateral motion in delivering it. That is the 
only manner in which the ball can be made so to revolve on its 
axis as to acquire the proper direction. The ball must turn from 
right to left in such a manner as to deflect its course toward the 
right corner of home plate. 

Do not become discouraged if you fail to see the ball positively 
change its course as it does in an outcurve. The mere fact that 
it constantly bears in toward a right-hand batter and away from 
a left-hand batter is all that is needed to make it successful. 
Practice will succeed in giving a sharp break to the ball, which 
may not amount to more than an inch or two, but is very effective 
when combined with good control, since it baffles the batter to 
meet it effectually with the full part of the bat. 

If it is easier tc use all four fingers in trying to pitch an inshoot 
do not be afraid to do so. The fact most to be kept in mind is, 
that a rapid motion is necessary to induce the ball to "bore in," 
and it is necessary that accuracy shall follow to make the inshoot 
successful. If you can't get accuracy with three fingers, use all 
four. 



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MAKE EVERYTHING TELL AND DON'T 
WASTE YOUR ARM 

By Walter Johnson. 

Every beginner in base ball does not stop to figure on how 
much he can do with the least exertion. That applies more to 
the pitchers than it does to the catchers and the fielders. The 
burden of the first effort in base ball falls upon the pitcher^ 
because from the start of the game to the finish he must serve 
the ball to the batter, and until he puts it in play the other men 
are inactive. 

The rules provide that the batter must become a base runner 
if he obtains three strikes or four called balls. Of course, I am 
not taking into consideration the fact that the batter may occa- 
sionally strike the first ball pitched. I am looking at the matter 
cold blooded, from the standpoint alone of the pitcher. 

Four balls plus three strikes are seven chances, but the pitcher 
cannot begin his calculation on the basis that he will have seven 
chances to fool the batter. If he gets three balls called against 
him he must get rid of the batter at the most with three strikes- 
providing no other play intervenes — so that it is evident a pitcher 
in reality has but six chances against every batter who faces 
him. This total is increased sometimes when the batter fouls the 
ball a number of times. I have seen a batter make as many as 
six or seven fouls in succession and go to the limit in balls and 
strikes, so that he really offered or failed to offer at the ball 
thirteen times. That is not the standard upon which to work, 
although I fear that there are some young pitchers who are 
inclined to trust more to that sort of thing — luck for instance — 
than to reliance upon their ability. 

Whenever a batter walks to the plate the pitcher should say 
to himself, "Now I have six chances to get this fellow out of 
the way. Is it worth while for me to waste one or two of them 
to try to induce him to strike at bad balls? Is he a batter 
whom I can fool at least once or twice, which possibly will not 
help me to cut down the limit of work, or would it be better 
for me to go right after him from the start and try to make 
him play on the ball in some way without using too much 
energy?" 

Suppose that he is a good batter. It is safe to say that if 
suoh is the case he will offer at the ball when it appears to 
him to be coming over the plate. That being the case the pitcher 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 9 

would better keep it around the corners of the plate and as 
much as possible on the weak side of the batter or high or low 
as it may be hardest for the batter to meet the ball. 

If he is not a good batter the pitcher will do better by pitch- 
ing constantly to his weak spot, forcing the fight on him, but 
at the same time never wasting the ball by curves which are 
thrown with the idea of breaking wide, where even a poor batter 
is likely to be able to gauge them with success. 

Let me cite a case which I witnessed, showing how a pitcher 
wasted his arm to no purpose. Three times in succession he 
threw the ball wide of the plate. Now I knew that the pitcher 
was too good to do anything of the kind unless he was reckless 
or had some purpose in view. So I asked for information. 

"Oh, I took a chance that I might make him swing," was the 
reply. 

But the trouble was that -he didn't swing. Then the pitcher, 
tvho was three balls in, with a dismal prospect of being hit hard, 
had to take that chance or put the next ball outside of the plate 
for the fourth time and give the batter his base. He pitched 
the fourth time for a strike, but the fifth was not over and the 
batter got a base on balls. 

Now 1 figure that to be wasted effort. If he had been a pitcher 
of no control it would have been quite another matter. It might 
have been reasonable to expect three bad balls in succession, or 
perhaps four bad balls, but he was a pitcher of excellent com- 
mand. To my notion he simply threw away that much energy 
and strength in his arm with a careless purpose in mind of 
getting the batter to swing at the ball if he could. 

Suppose that he had started with the very first ball to make 
the batter do something. That is to place the ball where the batter 
would have to swing for it or permit it to pass by and perhaps 
be punished with a strike. In that case the pitcher would have 
earned some real value out of his pitching arm with his first 
intent. 

Why not try as hard the second time, the third and the fourth, 
if necessary? It seems to me much better to try to make every 
motion tell something than to trust any time to luck. There 
are some pitchers who are rather pronounced in their habit of • 
putting the first ball over the plate. They begin right away to 
attempt to place the batter on the defensive. In the long run they 
may be as successful as other pitchers, although it is a good 
idea not to tempt fate too strongly against batters who are pro- 
nounced first ball hitters. Still, at that, I don't know but it is 
wiser to make the batter play on the ball as often as possible 
than it is to waste efforts which a pitcher knows are as likely 
to be unsuccessful as they are to succeed. 




No. 1 shows how joe Wood, of the Boston Red Sox, deHvers a fast one. No. 2 shows 
how Wood grasps the ball for his " Floater." No. 3 shows how Jack Coombs, of the 
Athletics, holds his hands to pitch a drop. 



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REGARDING SPEED 

By Joe Wood. 

There seems to be an opinion among younger players that 
a pitcher to be successful must have speed in preference to any 
other qualihcation. I will admit that it is a good quality, yet 
there are batters in the major leagues to whom I would hesitate 
a long time about giving a ball pitched at the top of my speed. 
I should expect to see it land somewhere in the next lot. 

Good control and good judgment will go further to destroy 
their effectiveness as batters than the exercise of sheer brute 
strength. 

On the other hand, there are batters who are less able to gauge 
the flight of a swift ball, and it is wise to cultivate speed against 
them, because the average of chances in your favor is about 
three to one every time that they walk to the plate against you. 

Speed is a dangerous quantity against a player with a free 
swing unless the pitcher has a little jump to the ball or a little 
drop. He should be able to deflect its course in some way so 
that the batter either will lift the ball from beneath and bat it 
into the air or rap it on top and bat it to the ground. 

Let a batter who swings from the shoulder catch a ball at high 
speed with the thick of his bat and with his swing just over 
the front of the plate and the ball about seven times out of ten 
will be driven in a line where the player who knocks it down 
will be a most successful individual. I got one like that in the 
world's series of igi2. It was batted by the last batter against 
tne, and it saved Boston a run and perhaps the game and the 
series. 

Meyers, the Indian catcher on the New York team, hit the 
ball. If it hadn't come as straight as it did to my hand I never 
would have stopped it, and the ball would have gone to center 
field. Merkle would have scored and the Giants would have 
had two runs instead of one. 

The ball ended my base ball for the day right there. When 
i got back to the bench I couldn't shut my hand and Engle had 
to go to bat in place of me. It was the muff of Engle's fly 
which started Boston on the way to win. 

I had not intended to put the ball up where Meyers could 
meet it with the full strength of his swing, but he fooled me 
by changing his attitude at bat. He stood differently than he 
had at any time prior to that in the series, and I thought that 
I would fool him without question. Instead of fooling him he 



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fooled me. If there had been another inning to the game I 
could not have pitched it. He had put my pitching hand out 
of commission for the time being. More than that, I think that 
I was lucky in making a stop of the ball, for it came up to me 
so fast that I threw up my hand involuntarily to stop it. 

Suppose that I had pitched to Meyers with a slow ball at 
that stage. It probably would have been just as well for Boston, 
as we had two out, and all that we needed was to get Meyers for 
the third man. You see there was one instance where speed came 
out lucky for me, although, as I say, it might have been better 
judgment on my part if I had used a slow ball. 

While I have been discussing the subject of speed in a 
roundabout fashion I have been trying to show that although it 
is a great accomplishment for a pitcher to possess speed, and one 
which will help him much in his major league career, if he 
becomes good enough for the major leagues, it isn't essential that 
a pitcher must have speed, and so the )^ounger players should not 
try to force themselves too much in this respect. 

If any pitcher who is a member of a minor league or an inde- 
pendent club, or even a village club, has a good arm and is sure 
that it is in condition, no tweaks of pain or aches or anything 
of that kind, he will be very unwise if he devotes all of his time 
to the effort to develop a fast ball. 

Once let him obtain control and be sure that he can handle 
the ball as he wishes to handle it and the speed will follow. 
The absence of control is frequently one of the very things 
which prevent speed. For instance, a young player may throw 
the ball as fast as Rusie, but he is as likely to give five bases 
on balls in succession as anything else if he undertakes to do so. 
Of what good is speed to him? If, instead of trying to throw 
the ball with such force past the plate that it goes so wide the 
batter laughs, or so close to the batter that he is kept dancing 
around to dodge it, he could put the ball where the batter would 
have to swing at it, he would be far more beneficial to his 
club than he is likely to prove to be. 

If, instead of trying to throw with all of his speed merely to- 
demonstrate that he had speed, he had worked as hard to be 
sure that the ball was over some part of the plate he would 
be a strong man against an opposing team in every game in 
which he took part, and while working to obtain control he 
woul-d find, little by little, that he dared to use his speed to its 
best advantage. 

That was my experience. I was wild when I began. I have 
some days now when the ball is not controlled as well as I should 
control it, and whenever I find that I am backward in that 
respect I don't begin by trying to use every pound of speed of 



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which I am capable. If I can't work into the game slowly I 
know that it will not be worth while to try the fast ones. 

If I were a young pitcher who believed that a chance was in 
front of me to do well in professional base ball I should not 
lie awake nights because I did not possess the speed of some other 
pitcher. A good curve ball, the ability to change pace, skill in 
working corners and a few other qualifications like that would 
be likely to work trouble enough for the batters and then would 
come the speed, which is bound to follow as one's arm gets 
better and older. 

You know the time will come when the pitching arm will 
be too old, so the best thing to do is not to force it when the 
muscles are not ready for sudden development. 

To the young player who has speed I have one recommenda- 
tion to offer and that is, never to try to pitch for a big league 
club until control has been obtained. It doesn't make any 
difference how much speed the player has or how strong he 
may be ©r how certain he may be that one day he will be 
the best pitcher in all the world, the fact remains that if he can't 
get the ball over the plate his big league career will end in a 
hurry, and back he will go to a smaller organization until he 
learns the first requisite of being a real pitcher. I know, because 
I tried it. 



HOW TO PITCH THE OUTCURVE 

By Otis Crandall. 

Grasp the ball with the first two fingers of the hand and the 
thumb. Some use the third finger and the fourth finger to steady 
the ball in the palm of the hand and some turn the fourth finger 
down. Turn the hand downward, holding the ball as if in a 
saucer. When the ball is delivered let it pass between the 
thumb and the first finger with a turn of the wrist at the same 
time. This gives the rotary motion that is necessary to produce 
the curve. It is possible to pitch both a fast and a slow outcurve. 
It is better for the beginner to attempt the slow curve first. To 
acquire the slow curve, do not grasp the ball too tightly. Too 
many young pitchers destroy the effect of the curve by holding 
the ball so firmly in the hand that they fail to give it the proper 
revolving motion. They become discouraged at frequent unsuc- 
cessful attempts to succeed, by handicapping themselves, and give 
up trying to learn, when a proper word of caution would have 
placed them on the right track. The outcurve may be pitched 
both with an underhand and an overhand delivery. 




No. 1 — How a pitcher turns his hand to pitch a drop ball. No. 2 — The incurve is 
pitched with a sidearm motion, the ball being released over the tips of the first two 
fingers, the arm being swept around with a lateral motion ; some pitchers throw an 
incurve by grasping the ball with all four fingers and permitting it to slip over the tips. 
No. 3 — Position of the ball for an outcurve, the ball being released between the thumb 
and first linger. 



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STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE NEEDED 

By Edward Walsh. 

If I were a young player, to do all over again what I have 
done in professional base ball, I believe that I should pursue 
about the same course that I have. 

Not that I have not gained by experience, but I am satisfied 
that I was better equipped to pitch than to do anything else in 
the national game, and, therefore, it has not been an unprofitable 
experience for me. 

Many young players have asked my advice within the last 
year or two, or have sought to gain some information which 
they hoped might assist them in entering the game as profes- 
sionals. I have met several who were anxious to be pitchers. 
As a rule that seems to be the ambition of at least one-third of 
the young players. They reach out in that direction because 
ihey believe there is more to be made in the position of pitcher 
than there is to be made as a player in the field or on the bases. 

Without exception I have suggested to the young men who 
are interested in becoming the future professional experts of the 
United States, that it would be better for them first to consider 
whether they felt that they were capable of going through the 
physical strain to which a pitcher is now subjected. 

Any young player whose arm is weak or who cannot stand the 
exertion of at least two good games ia one week, should make up 
his mind that pitching, either in a professional or an amateur 
capacity, is likely to be too much for him. 

The increased distance at which the pitcher is compelled to 
throw the ball, and which is likely to remain the same for years 
to come, is very trying on the muscles of the pitching arm. Now 
and then there is a pitcher of light weight who is fairly successful 
in the pennant races of the greater importance, but if the ranks 
of ball players be thoroughly reviewed it will be discovered that 
the enduring pitchers of the present time are those who are pos- 
sessed of the greatest amount of physical strength and the largest 
amount of reserve energy, in the way of bodily endurance. 

All this is essential to the possession of correct information in 
regard to pitching successfully. It would be foolish for a player 
who is not endowed by nature with the proper physique to be 
successful in the pitcher's box, to throw his time away trying to 
master curves which will not break right for him, unless he can 
force the ball to the plate with perfect assurance that Me knows 
how it will arrive for the battel. 



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Another argument against trying to be a successful pitcher, 
without having the physical power to become one, is that the 
man who is not fitted for the part by nature will be unable to 
hold his own through a game of nine innings, and even if he 
is fairly successful at the start, will fail toward the finish and 
see the good that he has accomplished fade away. 

There is only one real essential to the "spit ball," so called. 
That is speed and the strength behind it to make it speedy. I use 
it a great deal in my work and I have used it ever since I have 
been a professional.' When I first began to pitch my control 
was not the best in the world, but I did what older pitchers 
advised me to do, worked hard every day to obtain control. 

While it is true that the "spit ball" to a certain extent is out- 
side the pale of control, owing to the erratic manner in which 
it occasionally twists, it is also true that you can have a definite 
idea as to what you wish to try to accomplish with it, and that, 
if you hold the ball in certain positions it will probably follow 
your general desire, although it may make some sharp and unex- 
pected break which shall fool the catcher as much as the batter. 

To accomplish this you must have strength in your arm. No 
pitcher with a failing arm, or with an arm which cannot stand 
the strain of a high overhand delivery, releasing the ball at full 
speed with all the strength in the shoulder, can hope to do much 
with an efi'ort of this kind. 

If a pitcher lacks in physical strength to some extent, and 
still has endurance and the ability to curve the ball well and 
also retains good command of it, he is likely to meet with suc- 
cess for a time, although batters will generally be able to hit 
him for a rally better than they will the pitcher with strength 
and the sweeping delivery. 

It must not be forgotten that the fewer times which the pitcher 
uses in throwing the ball to the plate are a matter of economy 
with him. If a pitcher can win with 150 balls and strikes against 
200 he has saved just that much wear and tear on his arm. 

Some pitchers seem to forget this. Others are heedless in 
regard to it. Some pitchers throw the ball to the batter to try 
to tempt him to strike at impossible curves. Not satisfied with 
one experiment, they are likely to experiment two or three times, 
and it is so much waste of physical effort. 

Young pitchers should never forget that fact. It is a L->o<^ 
idea not to work any harder in a base ball game than you are 
compelled to work. If I can save myself from pitching 400 or 
500 balls and strikes during half a season, I believe that I am 
just that much better off, and that I shall have a year or two 
added to my base ball career, simply because I have not blindly 
thrown away the good that was in my arm. 



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VALUE OF THE DROP BALL 

By John Coombs. 

If a young player can pitch a drop ball naturally, or if he can 
learn to pitch a drop ball, I should advise him to do so. To 
my mind there is nothing which is more baffling to a batsman, 
whether he be strong or weak, than to try to meet a drop ball 
effectively. 

If he strikes under it he will raise it. If he strikes on top of 
it he will chop it down and unless he happens to meet it with 
unusual force will not be likely to give the fielder much trouble 
to handle it. 

There is a possibility that he will meet it in the center, swing- 
ing low with his bat at the same time, and if that happens he 
will be most likely to bat it safely, but that is not going to 
happen often enough to embarrass a pitcher who knows how to 
pitch a drop and who has good command of the ball. 

It has been argued that pitchers who resort to the drop are 
more likely to lose their efficiency quicker than those who depend 
Ufjon curves, speed, a change of pace, or some other method of 
delivery. 

That may be true of some pitchers, but I do not think that 
it is borne out by the facts in the case of the majority of 
pitchers. I have used a drop ball since I have been in the major 
leagues. In some years I have pitched better than in others, but 
a lack of ineffectiveness on my part was not due to the drop 
ball, but to an injury of quite another character, which had noth- 
ing to do with my arm. It was a strain caused by slipping on the 
turf as I was about to deliver the ball to the batsman. 

Mathewson has used a drop ball when he felt like doing so. 
The famous fadeaway is a combination of drop and curve. 
Wood uses the drop ball. I might go through the list and cite 
various other pitchers who use the drop ball, but that is not my 
purpose. 

What I am undertaking to do is to counsel that the drop ball 
he cultivated. Probably there are some young pitchers who never 
have been able to pitch a drop. There may be others who may 
never be able to acquire a drop. If they find that it is out of 
the question for them to do so the best thing that they can do is 
to keep along on other lines and perfect themselves in that 
which is most natural for them. 

Where a beginner finds that he can pitch the drop ball, even 
though it be a small drop, only a trifling deflection in the course 



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of the ball, it should be his every effort to make that style more 
and more effective. 

Take pitchers as a whole and I believe that the drop ball is 
more natural to the left-handers than to the right-handers. I am 
at a loss to understand why such should be the case unless the 
explanation is due to the different arrangements of the muscles 
of the chest. I am not enough of an anatomist to state what that 
difference may be, although I have been informed by surgeons 
that there is a difference. 

The left-hand pitcher, with rare exceptions, delivers the ball 
over his left shoulder. There are some side arm left-hand pitch- 
ers, but few of them ever have found that they could last in the 
major leagues. One of the most notable of that type is Wiltse, 
who has used a side-arm delivery with effect ever since he has 
been in professional base ball. 

The over the shoulder delivery seems to be better adapted to 
a perfect manner in pitching for the drop than the side-arm 
delivery. First of all the ball is raised to higher altitude before 
the pitcher releases it to the batter and that gives an added 
advantage. Wiltse pitches a drop ball with a side-arm delivery, 
yet the ball does not drop so far as it does with the over the 
shoulder delivery, although when Wiltse's drop is working well 
it is difficult to hit, because it takes its downward flight very 
suddenly and with little or no warning to the batter. 

When I pitch a drop I deliver the ball from over the shoulder. 
I presume that I grasp the ball as every other pitcher grasps it 
who is trying for a drop. I get my lingers well over it and I 
release it so that the twisting power is inverse to that which 
I would put on the ball for a shoot. On days when I am at my 
best I can bring the ball down to the batter's knees and those are 
usually the days in which I have the most success on the pitcher's 
plate. 

The beauty about the drop is that it frequently is good for the 
second or third strike and. while all strikes are important, it 
seems as if the second and third are to be reckoned as more 
important in a way than the first. True, you must have the Hrst 
strike to get three, but after you have got the first strike the 
batter is placed more on the defensive when you have two against 
him, and if you can induce him to swing at a bad ball on the 
third strike you have made it easier for your team and perhaps 
easier for yourself. 

If a batter has one strike against him and a drop is pitched 
to him, he is in a quandary at once as to whether he would 
better go after the ball. He may not know that it is a drop, for 
if the ball is started straight toward the plate he will be unable 
to analyze its direction, even when it is almost upon him. 



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If he thinks that it is a drop he will reach low for it. That 
will usually be to the advantage of the pitcher, for if he hits the 
ball he is not likely to hit so effectively as if he could put a full 
straight-arm swing against the leather. If he is not certain 
that it is a drop, or if he fails to gauge the extent of the drop,, 
which will be quite as plausible, he will swing over the ball and 
probably miss it. That will give the pitcher two strikes against 
him and place him wholly on the defensive. 

Granting that with a curve ball the batter might also be fooled^ 
it stands to reason that he is more likely to be fooled with a drop 
ball, if it is a drop of the type which approaches the plate on a 
line and with no curve. That is the hardest kind of a drop ball 
to pitch and, strangely enough, pitchers who are able to use it 
almost always have been successful in their major league careers 
without a great deal of minor league experience, because such 
a pitcher seems to be born to the task. 

Most right-hand pitchers who have a drop ball are pitchers 
who combine the drop with an outcurve. It is easy for them to 
pitch an outcurve in the first place and, by releasing the ball 
with the hand turned down and with perhaps a little more twist 
to it than when they use the curve alone, the ball takes its drop 
naturaHy. The worst fault that such a style has is that the ball 
is likely in its last stages to twist wide of the plate. It cannot 
always be depended upon to fool the batter, although if the latter 
strikes at it and hits it, the chances are good that he will not 
make much headway against it. 

It must also be borne in mind by the young pitchers that it 
takes a very quick and accurate eye to judge a drop ball suc- 
cessfully. That is why so few of the batters meet it "on the 
nose." There are some who hit a drop ball hard. Larry Doyle 
of the New York National League club is not a safe batter 
against whom to use a drop ball. He seems to have a keen per- 
ception as to when a drop is coming to him and a still keener 
perception in meeting the ball in the right place. 

To revert to the use of the drop ball by a right-hand pitcher, 
attention is called to the excellent work of Walter Johnson, of 
the Washington club, who has no hesitancy in pitching one drop 
ball after another, if he is inclined that way. Johnson is one of 
the few right-hand pitchers whom I have seen who is able to 
pitch a ball off the ends of his fingers. Most right-handers, as I 
have said, pitch a drop from the outside of their hand between 
the thumb and first finger but T have seen Johnson pitch a drop 
to the batter when the ball left his hand flat from the finger 
tips. It takes great speed to accomplish that feat and as Johnson 
is one of the speediest pitchers in the major leagues, doubtless 
that explains his ability. 



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The drop ball is the antithesis of the jump ball. It is gen- 
erally believed that the jump ball is the success of many right- 
hand pitchers. That, too, is delivered by speed, but it must be 
remembered that the jump ball does not vary in its flight more 
than perhaps two inches, possibly less now and then. The "jump" 
comes at the last moment and prevents the batters from meeting 
the ball in the center. 

The drop, on the other hand, in at least seven instances out of 
ten, will be very pronounced. There are pitchers who have been 
able to drop the ball a foot. But if a young pitcher can only 
drop it three or four inches he has gone a lone; way toward ac- 
complishing something which will mix admirably with speed 
?nd with lateral curves. 

The natural tendency of most batters is to swing. Some chop 
at the ball, but they are more of the expert type than the rank 
and file of the professional leagues. The fact that most of them 
do swing is against them when they face the drop ball. To meet 
it successfully the batter must, swing low, and there is where 
the pitcher who has a drop has the better of the argument. 
For that reason every young pitcher should make up his mind 
to be a drop ball pitcher if he can acquire the delivery and be 
jconfident in using it. 



THE "SPIT BALL" 

By John Chesbro. 

The "spit ball" simply consists in moistening one side of 
the ball with saliva and throwing it so that it leaves the ends 
of the fingers with much the same arm motions as are em- 
ployed for the different curves. That it will break contrary to 
the curve intended, I do not believe. Sometimes it leaves the 
hand with such speed that it curves little, or not at all, and fools 
both batter and catcher. 

If the ball is moistened for a drop, the chances are the drop 
will be greater than with a dry ball ; if for an outcurve, a wider 
outcurve may be the result, and if for an inshoot, a greater jump, 
and with all three, more speed, because the cover is what might 
jbe called greased as the ball leaves the hand. 

The one important feature to be observed is to keep the 
moistened side of the ball out. It has been told me that the air 
piles up denser against a moistened surface than against a dry 
surface, and that the "spit ball" gains its effectiveness thereby. 



.SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 21 

PITCHING TO THE BATTER 

By Richard Marquard. 

One of the most valuable accessories to successful pitching is 
the ability to place the ball where the batter must make an attempt 
to bat it or suffer the penalty of a strike. I do not mean by this 
statement to impress the beginner or the young player with the 
idea that the pitcher should attempt to strike every batter out. 

That which 1 desire to impress upon the beginner is the neces- 
sity to pitch the ball on the plate where the batter deems it ^Jie 
better part of his time at bat to strike at the ball and trust that 
he may hit safely, although he is not over confident of his ability 
to do so by reason of the fact that the ball does not pass him at 
the height or the angle at which he is most successful. 

For example, there are some batters who will step back at a 
ball pitched high and with great speed and drive it with tre- 
mendous force to the fielders. Naturally a good way to try to 
make their batting skill less effective is to pitch either a high 
ball or a low ball over the outside corner of the plate, where 
they must. either step forward to meet it or may decline to offer 
at it and be penalized by having strikes called against them. 

Let us take the other example. There are batters who hit with 
confidence and force by stepping forward and into the ball as it 
approaches the plate. Almost all of these batters will meet a 
high ball on the outside corner with more success than anything 
which they attempt. Now if the pitcher will keep the ball on the 
inside corner and below the shoulder he will weaken the useful- 
ness of the batter, for the latter will not hit to his normal speed 
if he is compelled to try to meet the ball out of position. 

There are many excellent batters whose greatest skill is based 
in their ability to hit the ball which crosses the outside corner. 
They are usually batters who take a step forward as the ball 
approaches them. If these batters can be compelled to swing at 
the ball without advancing the pitcher may not be able to prevent 
them from hitting the ball, but it is fairly certain that he will be 
able to prevent them from batting with their usual effectiveness. 

Of all batters who are to be faced during a base ball game 
it seems to me that this type is the hardest for the pitcher to out- 
wit unless the latter has excellent control of the ball and exercises 
his best judgment to keep the ball where it will be inside of the 
swing of these men, and where they will be likely to meet it on 
the handle of the bat if they step into it. 

For that reason it is well to pitch to them with a curve which 



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breaks inside instead of outside. That is where the left hand 
pitcher has his one best advantage against a right hand batter. 

In one of the hardest fought National League games which I 
pitched during the season of 1912 I outwitted one of the heavy 
batters of a rival club by pitching a curve to him which invari- 
ably broke against him on the inside corner of the plate. As 
much as I possibly could I made it appear that I was trying to 
mix a straight ball with a curve ball. To do that I had to make 
the curve ball appear as if it were to be a straight ball, and was 
compelled, of course, to make the curve break at a short angle 
just at the last moment before it came to him. 

It is always well to study the swing of the batter and the 
manner in which he holds his bat. Of course. I realize that 
where only games are played now and then between teams in 
different towns it is not so easy to discern the peculiarities of a 
batter as it is in the organized leagues where the pitcher meets 
the different batters at regular intervals. On the other hand, if 
a young pitcher will use his eyes with judgment and will give 
his power of observation time to concentrate while a batter is 
in front of him, even if the latter is new to him, he. will almost 
certainly pick up one or two points. 

For instance, if the batter takes a long swing, no matter 
whether he steps into the ball or steps back, be sure to pitch 
for what I call the "weak end" of the bat. If he steps forward 
on a ball and swings hard, naturally he will bat less effectively 
if you can make him meet the ball close to his hands. If he 
steps back on the ball you can drive him further back. 

If a batter "chokes" his bat and swings from the forearms 
you must watch him every moment. In the first place, that kind 
of a grip on the bat has its advantages in giving the batter 
an opportunity for quick action. Most batters who grasp the 
bat five or six inches from the handle end and take a swing of 
only a few inches rely upon their excellent eyesight and their 
quick judgment to meet the ball "on the nose." It doesn't 
matter to them whether they get much of a swing if they can hit 
the ball in the center and they become dangerous batters for 
the reason that they drive sharp hits through the infield and 
fast liners over the heads of the infielders. 

As a rule they are better place hitters than the batsmen 
who swing far. The latter simply hope to counteract any skill 
of the pitcher by the amount of personal strength which they 
can muster when tbev swine. If they meet the ball fairly or 
nearly so, they are likely to hit over the heads of the outfielders. 

The men who choke their bats are not trying to match their 
strength so much against the pitcher as they are their eyesight 
and general alertness and excellence of perception. 



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To fool them it is essential that you must learn whether 
they push the ball with a straight motion or whether they scoop 
it. If they push the ball the more that it is kept inside the 
better for the pitcher. If they scoop it you can trust to keeping 
the ball on the outside, where the probabilities are they will 
bat it into the air and give the fielders easy chances. Great 
care must be exercised in using change of pace with these batters, 
for if the ball is pitched slowly to the plate and within range of 
the center of the bat — I mean the center from end to end — it 
becomes easy for a batter with a short grip and he is likely to 
tap it toward either base, with a chance of making a base hit. 

On the whole I think that all batters who are inclined to 
swing under the ball are less dangerous than those who chop it 
down or hit on top. You can tell by the way in which some 
batters grasp their bat whether they will swinr from beneath 
almost before they have taken a chance to bat the ball. 

If you pitch to' them below the hip and on the outside it is 
safe to say that you can get them to bat into the air a goodly 
portion of the time, and if you succeed in doing so the chances 
are good that the best of their batt.ng against you will be ta 
make fly hits. Occasionally they may make a long hit, but you 
can afford to take that chance. 

On the other hand, if the batter is inclined to chop the ball 
keep it high against him. He will find it difficult to get over 
the top of the iDall and, if he does hit it, more likely will bat a 
high bounder, which is easy to field, than to make a hard, low, 
line drive or one of those stinging hits which skim over the 
surface of the turf at a speed which is very difficult for the 
fielder to handle. If you permit the chop hitters to bat at 
low balls they will as often hit them squarely in the center, 
as on the top or bottom, and when they do meet them in the 
center they will punish the ball hard. 

A right-hand batter who stands at the plate with his right 
foot back of his left, a position which is assumed by some, 
although not all managers agree that it is a good position, will 
pull a slow ball toward left field, because he will bring his right 
foot forward as he steps to meet the ball. For that reason if 
the pitcher chooses to use a slow ball against him he would best 
keep it on the inside corner, so that if met hard the batter will 
have a tendency to hit foul. 

If a batter of this type is given a fast ball keep it well out. 
He will meet a fast ball at a slower angle than a slow ball and 
probably push it to right field. If the ball is too near the 
center of the plate he is likely to hit hard and safe to right field. 
If it is on the outside corner of the plate he may foul it or raise 
a high fly to the right fielder, which will be easy for that player. 



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GETTING THE BALL OVER THE PLATE 

By Charles Tesreau. 

It stands to reason that a pitcher to be successful must get 
the ball over the plate, but not all of the young pitchers who 
beg-in their base ball career in independent clubs, or in clubs 
which make up the smaller circuits of base ball, seem to realize 
what it is to get the ball "over the rubber." 

Many of the younger pitchers seem to believe that "getting the 
ball over the plate" means that it must be pitched to the center 
of the plate. Of course, it is bound to travel over the center 
of the plate some of the time, for there is no pitcher, with the 
possible exception of three or four, who is so sure of his accu- 
racy that he can rely upon his ability to make the ball break to a 
fraction of an inch. 

"Getting the ball over the plate" does not mean that it must 
necessarily divide the plate in two by an imaginary line, but that 
it shall touch upon the corners of the plate at some height which 
is most awkward to the batter. By working upon the corners 
the pitcher always has a slight advantage over the batter, and as 
the brunt of the fight in a ball game falls upon the pitcher and 
the batter it is evident that the more successful the pitcher can 
become in placing the ball where it is batted with the least effect- 
iveness the more probable his general usefulness to the team 
with which he happens to be playing. 

When I first essayed to pitch in a professional club I did not 
have the best of control. Some of the coaches with whom I 
worked said that I was too strong and that I devoted all my 
strength to getting the ball to the batter, trying at the same time 
to get the ball over the center of home plate. The result was 
that when I did get the ball within batting distance too fre- 
quently I got it in the center of an imaginary circle that might 
be supposed to be drawn in front of the batter and to which I 
was trying to pitch. If I touched the center too closely I placed 
the ball where it could be batted with the thick of the bat at the 
point which it was easiest for the batter to gauge what I was 
pitching to him. 

I use the spit ball more or less in pitching and it is not always 
easy for the best spit ball pitcher to be sure exactly where the 
ball will cross the plate, although I believe that spit ball pitchers, 
as a rule, are possessed of better control than they were when 
that method of delivery first came into vogue. 

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National League club, was the first to inform me of my weak- 
ness in pitching. He worked with me two or three days and 
then told me that I must learn to pitch to the corners of the 
plate and not to the center. 

"You will start in with me from now on," he said, "by trying 
to break the ball over the corners. Never mind the center. You 
are a good enough pitcher now to be zlble to find the plate and 
when you find it you are too likely to pitch to the center. I 
want you to pitch to the corners with the present skill which you 
possess and you will find that the center will take care of itself." 

After that he worked with me in morning practice and before 
games to pitch to the corners. Instead of keeping my eye full 
on the plate I picked out a point a little to one side of it — on 
both sides — and began to attempt to break my curves and my 
spit ball over the corners. Of course it was a little hard at the 
start. I learned that I was trying to break th"e ball too far now 
and then at the angle which I was using. In other words I was 
pitching outside the corner, but I kept at the task steadily and 
by and by I found that I could catch the corners, because I had 
learned the proper point from which to start the ball and the 
proper position which I should assume in the box with the 
amount of force which I intended to put on the ball when I 
delivered it to the batter. 

That, was a great help to me, because it was the beginning of 
my efifort to use the cross-fire, which consists of stepping wide 
to one side of the pitcher's box and pitching with a sweep of the 
arm which is greater than that which is employed by a pitcher 
who delivers the ball directly over the shoulder. I have not 
perfected the cross-fire by any means, but I have found that I 
can employ it now and then to great advantage and it is a play 
in which I mean to perfect myself. 

The point which I most want to emphasize about pitching to 
the corners is that the moment you begin to have confidence in 
yourself to find the corners you will have little trouble in finding 
the plate. Instead of appearing like a narrow band in front of you 
home plate begins to assume the aspect of a target whose dimen- 
sions you have thoroughly assimilated and of which you have 
no fear. 

I have seen pitchers who insisted that they could not pitch to 
the corners because it was all they could do to pitch to the plate. 
The trouble with most of them was that they would not try for 
the corners in practice, which is the proper time to regulate your 
delivery to the necessities of the game. It is certain that if a 
pitcher will not attempt to practice for the corners he will not 
use the corner ball much in a regular game, because he will be 
too afraid of giving bases on balls. When he does make the 



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corner it will be more by accident than by design. The result 
will be that every now and then he will be batted hard when it 
seems to him that he is in good form, and he will wonder why 
such is the case. 

The answer is simple enough. He is breaking the ball on the 
center of the plate with such regularity that even the poorer 
batters will have confidence in their ability to hit it, and when 
a batter walks to the plate confident that he is going to bat suc- 
cessfully against a pitcher it is a sorry moment for the latter, 
because he must face a fight in which the batter has confidence. 
I don't believe that there is any batter who is sure of himself all 
of the time if he knows that the pitcher is versatile and has 
good command of the corners. 

I have been told by batters who have faced some of the more 
successful spit balFpitchers that they dread those who break the 
ball on the corners for the reason that the sudden shift which 
happens when a spit ball changes pace makes it almost out of 
the question to meet it safely when it takes its final swerve from 
the batter. 

Owing to the present shape of home plate it is not such a dif- 
ficult matter to pitch to the corners as it might seem to be. 
Remember that there is a straight edge to that part of the plate 
which confronts the pitcher. That means a great deal, as it 
presents a perfectly accurate line at which the pitcher can aim. 
In the old days, when the plate was a four cornered square, it 
was less easy to discern the corners and the pitcher necessarily 
•had to keep the center angle in line — that angle which con- 
fronted him — in order that he might be sure not to give an 
excessive number of bases on balls. 

It is admitted, of course, that all pitchers should have good 
control, but good control does not invariably carry with it the 
ability to play with accuracy over the corners. For that reason 
some pitchers who have good control are batted harder than 
they might be were they possessed of better command and the 
cunning which would enable them to keep the batter constantly 
guessing as to the angle at which the ball would be traveling 
when it finally came within batting distance. 

My advice to pitchers who are beginning to try for something 
in the national game is to practice as diligently for the corners 
as for the plate when they are trying to obtain good control. 
If they do that they have mastered three points which will be of 
the utmost assistance to them when they face the batter. They 
will know bow to place the ball over the center when the neces- 
sity arises, and they will know how to pitch to the outside corner 
and the inside corner and thereby decrease the probable chance 
of success on the part of the batters who face them. 



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PITCHING TO A TARGET 

By "Nap" Rucker. 

Every pitcher must keep his eye on the plate. The principle is 
the same as that of the axeman in the forest. When he is chop- 
ping down a tree, or hewing a log into rails, he does not watch 
the blade of the axe as it descends, but his eye is on the point 
into which he intends to chop. Were he to permit his eye to 
turn, first to the axe and then to the log, and perhaps back again 
to the axe, the chances are good that he would wound his foot, 
or his leg, before he had finished with his task. 

He centers his observation on the object wTiich he desires to 
hit with the blade of the axe. He may not once take it away 
from this point during the time that he is making stroke after 
stroke into the wood before him, and so expert does he become 
that he can place the axe blade time after time within the frac- 
tion of an inch of the point at which he aims. 

This theory applies to successful pitching. The pitcher must 
make the plate his target. As he becomes more expert he will 
be able to select some particular point of the plate to which he 
wishes to force the ball. H he keeps his eye on this point, while 
he is in the act of delivering the ball, and does not permit his 
attention to wander, first to the batsman, then to the catcher, 
from there to the stand, and back again to the objective point of 
his delivery, he will find that he can pitch with more confidence 
and with more accuracy than possible under any other conditions. 

When a pitcher is in position and is ready to deliver the ball, 
instead of looking at his hand, to see whether he has grasped it 
in exactly the position that he wishes, and keeping his eye on 
ground in front of him, or even on his hand as he draws the ball 
back to deliver it — and I have seen young pitchers do that — he 
should be looking straight at the plate, having selected that point 
where he expects that the ball will either cross the plate or come 
so close to it that the batter will be deceived into striking at it. 

All motions which relate to pitching should be as nearly invol- 
untary as they can be made. The pitcher should learn to tell by 
the feeling of the ball in his fingers that he has it in the right 
position, without being compelled to take his eye away from the 
plate to note whether he grasps the ball correctly. 



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PITCHING THE CROSS FIRE 

By Earl Moore. 

Almost all pitchers seldom shift their position. They rely 
absolutely on curves and change of pace. Both are essential to 
success, but how much better they might succeed if they would 
only change from one side of the pitcher's plate to the other. 
That is what constitutes the cross-fire, in addition to the ability 
to stand with one foot on the extreme rcrner of the plate and 
step out and deliver the ball at the same time. 

Suppose a batter to be at home plate. First, I might try him 
with an outcurve directly over the centre of the plate and pitched 
squarely from my position. He fails to strike at it. The next 
time I will step to the right as I deliver the ball, pitching the 
same curve, but at such a slant that it will carry wide of the plate. 
To the batter it appears as if the ball were coming just as it did 
before, and I fool him into striking at the ball, with a small 
chance of hitting it safely, even if he is successful in touching it. 

In somewhat similar fashion I can use the "cross-fire" against 
a right-hand batter by stepping to the left of the pitcher's plate 
and throwing a perfectly straight ball so that it will "bore in" 
toward the inside corner of home plate. Even if the batter notes 
that the ball tends in that direction the chances are that he cannot 
make up his mind that it is not going to be a good ball to hit, 
with the result that, if he meets it, he strikes it well up on the 
handle of the bat, and is lucky if he makes a hit that goes out of 
the infield. 

I should advise all young pitchers constantly to keep in mind 
the success that may be attended by careful employment of the 
'cross-fire." RememJier that in using it, it may not he necessary 
to employ a curve. Study your batter carefully. Note whether 
his tendency is to step into the ball or step away from it, and 
shift your position to correspond with his weakness. 

You will be surprised to find that "cross-fire" with nothing but 
a straight ball will do more to baffle some batters than all the 
curves that can be pitched to them. They do not seem to be able 
to measure the angle at which you deliver the ball, and never 
meet it effectively enough to worry you in the least. 




No. 1— Cicotte's "Knuckle Ball." No. 2—" Miner ' Brown's grip foi his famous 
curve. No. 3 — Tesreau's fingers ready for his fast ball. 



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TO THE LEFT-HANDERS 

By Roy Collins. 

Almost all left-hand pitchers, of which I am one, have the 
reputation of being erratic and unreliable. As one manager said 
to me once : "Most of you fellows either make us feel that we 
have the coming champions or cause us to believe you are worth 
not more than thirty cents of counterfeit money." 

One reason why left-hand pitchers are more unreliable than 
right-handers is that they throw with a natural curve which is 
not easy to control. Watch an outtielder or an intielder, who is 
left-handed, and it will be observed that it is very seldom he 
throws the ball without a pronounced curve. Some are so bad 
that they have to make allowance for their tendency to curve the 
ball when throwing. Otherwise they would never get a player out. 

When a left-hander tries to pitch he endeavors to increase his 
natural ability to curve, and the result is that he loses control of 
the ball. Furthermore, when a left-hand thrower, who becomes 
a pitcher, essays to put speed into a ball for a short distance, he 
is often astonished by an ability to curve which he did not know 
he possessed. I have thrown curves to a batter which surprised 
me, just as much as the catcher, by their width. 

The natural outcurve for the left-hand pitcher is the acquired 
inshoot of the right-hander. 1 have never been able to ascertain 
why this curve should come to a left-hand thrower almost with- 
out practice, when perhaps ninety per cent, of right-hand throwers 
are scarcely able to curve the balls an inch. 

It is a fact, however, that is indisputable, and would lead one to 
believe that all left-hand throwers, as a rule, should make good 
pitchers. Still with this natural qualification, with which to 
begin, the left-handers seem to lack stability when they get the 
ball in their hands as pitchers. 

It is my experience that nothing will help a left-hand pitcher 
so much as practice, and plenty of it. In view of the fact that it 
is so natural for a left-hand pitcher to curve the ball, my judg- 
ment is that left-hand throwers should practice controlling the 
curve and not worry so much about the straight ball. If they do 
not follow this theory when they are in a game, they will find that 
the ball is getting away from them as I have cited above. 

A left-hand pitcher has an advantage in throwing a drop ball 
by reason of the fact that it is more natural for him to pitch over 
his shoulder than for a right-hander. Physicians tell me that the 
arrangement of the body muscles has something to do with it. 



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WHEN RUNNERS ARE ON BASES 

By John Powell. 

The pitcher to whom a long arm swing is natural, must learn 
another motion to be employed when there are runners on the 
bases. Otherwise he will give them such a lead that a tremendous 
record for base stealing will be run up against him. 

At first thought it may seem to the young pitcher that he will 
have to begin all over again if his style has to be changed as the 
game changes. This is not true. It is not so difficult to shorten 
up the delivery as may be imagined. 

First of all, be in perfect touch with the catcher concerning 
signals regarding the base runners. Let him do most of the 
watching when there is a runner on first, but be prepared to act 
immediately if his signal is to throw, to catch the runner 
napping. 

When the arm is brought back to pitch, eliminate all twists and 
swings. It can be done effectively and with little effort. Perhaps 
the arm will have to be used more than the body, but bear in mind 
that it may not be necessary to do this very often if the batter is 
compelled to hit the ball. 

So adapt your style to the changed conditions that you can 
snap the ball to the plate before the runner is aware of what you 
intend doing. That will prevent him from leading very far away 
from first, and when he finds that you are able to pitch without a 
full preliminary swing, he will be very careful how he takes 
chances. 

Remember that shortening your swing does not necessarily 
imply that you cannot use your body to get speed. You will find 
that you can obtain a great deal of power from the shoulder mus- 
cles and from swaying the body from the hips, and this will not 
embarrass you in the least trying to get the ball to the plate too 
quickly to prevent the runner from getting much of a start. 

When the runner is on third, it is not necessary to follow these 
instructions so closely. It is very seldom that even the best base 
runner successfully steals home, and no matter how much players 
may run up and down the base line, do not permit yourself to be 
worried, but continue to pitch just as you did at the beginning 
of the game. 

When throwing ,ro first to catch runners who are leading out 
too far, be sure that you throw the ball low, but accurately, 
and to the right of the first baseman. That gives him an oppor- 
tunity to catch the ball and touch the runner with one motion. 



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WORK WITH THE CATCHER 

By John T. ("Chief") Meyers. 

Every young pitcher should learn to co-operate readily with 
his catcher. 

Between them they have much of the game in hand, and if 
complete harmony does not exist many misplays occur, any one 
of which is likely to cost a victory, since the slightest mistake in 
base ball often changes the outcome of a contest. 

My experience has taught me that the catcher in a measure 
should be allowed to handle the game. True, the pitcher may 
have good knowledge of the weakness of the batters, and in 
some respects it may surpass that of the catcher, but he is not 
always in as good a position to see what is going on as the 
catcher. 

The man behind the bat has his eyes on the whole field. He 
knows exactly where the infielders are stationed and the out- 
fielders. For a particular reason they may be playing a little out 
of their positions. The pitcher cannot always see that. Further- 
more, if there are runners on the bases the catcher knows how 
far they are leading off for a possible steal, and may be aware 
of some trick play that they are likely to attempt. This is out 
of the vision of the pitcher, who can see little but the batter and 
catcher who confront him. 

There should be a perfect system of signals which the pitcher 
can understand immediately without asking for a repetition. A 
little hesitancy may give the batter an inkling of what is coming 
and he will be ready for it. It is unnecessary to outline any 
particular code of signs here, for there are a thousand and one 
variations of the position behind the bat, or of the position of the 
fingers of the ungloved hand, or in a certain way of returning 
the ball to the pitcher, any of which can be read as easily as the 
alphabet if pitcher and catcher have perfected themselves in 
their code. 

Occasions may happen when the pitcher will disagree with the 
catcher as to the kind of ball to be thrown. I am not in favor 
of the pitcher shaking his head negatively to show that he will 
use something else. It gives too much information to the batter 
and in addition to that it imparts knowledge to the coachers. 
They will not be slow to take advantage of it and will renew 
their efforts to make life as unpleasant as possible for the bat- 
tery which is at work. If the pitcher prefers to use a drop, 
when he has been signaled to pitch an outcurve, he should be in 



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possession of a sign of some kind which will show the catcher at 
once what he intends to do, without presenting the side at bat 
with that much valuable knowledge. 

A pitcher who is inclined to be headstrong and use his own 
judgment constantly against that of the man who is behind the 
bat, will soon have the catcher completely upset and the result of 
a crossed sign may be a wild pitch which scores the deciding run 
of a game. 

The pitcher should also be on the qui vive to throw the ball 
to the bases to catch runners napping. The matter of when to 
throw he should leave solely to the catcher. If he bothers too 
much with the base runners himself he is likely to lose control 
of the ball, and present the batter with a base on balls, which is 
almost the equivalent of a base hit at times. A good pitcher, a 
right hand pitcher, of course, may stand with his back to first 
base-, and by studying the information given to him by the 
catcher, may be able to wheel suddenly and throw accurately 
enough to find the unwary runner so far away from the bag 
that it is the simplest thing in the world to touch him out. Once 
let a pitcher have that reputation well established and runners 
will quickly learn not to take hazardous risks. 

The expression is often heard that Smith and Jones, as pitcher 
and catcher, work like a clock. It is due absolutely to the fact 
that a thorough understanding exists between both men as to 
every detail of the game in which they are participants. Instead 
of playing their parts individually, and at cross purposes, they 
are one, and batters soon appreciate that they are meeting a com- 
bination which will require all their best efforts to circumvent. 

It seems to me, in my observation of the games between young 
players, that a great deal is often lost by the unwillingness of 
the pitcher to subordinate himself to the catcher, especially if it 
happens to be a pitcher who is one of the strike-out kind. 



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HOW TO MAKE A BATTER DO WHAT 
YOU WANT HIM TO DO 

By Albert Orth. 

If every pitcher were able to make every batter do exactly what 
he desired him to do, there would not be much hard w^ork for the 
fielders. No pitcher can play the whole game, but it is surprising 
how much can be done by the pitcher to keep batters under control. 

For example, you may notice that a certain batter has a ten- 
dency to hit over the ball when it comes low. Keep the ball low 
all the time. Don't pitch him a high one, for the chances are that 
he will meet it full. His natural swing is about at a certain angle 
over the plate, and while he may deviate occasionally the odds are 
in your favor that his bat will fall into the same place most of the 
time. If you keep the ball where he is bound to hit under it, he 
will bat into the air, where it is much easier for the fielders to 
make their plays than if he hits it on the ground. 

Keep the ball high on all batters as a rule when they are trying 
to sacrifice. In the first place, it is harder for them to meet the 
ball effectively, and secondly, they are seldom able to place it. A 
skillful hunter will place a low ball either toward first, or third, 
where it is almost out of the question to get it to the base in time 
to retire him. 

Some batters have a tendency to step toward the plate when 
they hit the ball. Keep it close to them all the time. If you 
pitch on the outside corner of the plate they will meet it squarely 
and with their full swing. That means base hits and worse. The 
more you make it essential for them to meet the ball on the handle 
of the bat, the more you destroy their efficiency as good batters. 

Other batters are inclined to draw away from the plate. Keep 
the ball out for them. If they hit it, the end of the bat is likely 
to be the point of contact, and there is seldom much force on a 
hit by the extreme end of the bat, especially if the batter happens 
to be a man with a long swing. Outcurves always bother batters 
of this description, who are seldom able to gauge accurately the 
point where the curve is likely to break, and frequently swing in 
such a ridiculously ineffective manner as to bring forth laughter 
from the spectators. 

If a batter is fast on his feet and apt to beat out hits by chop- 
ping the ball down to the ground, keep \t below his waist, where 
the distance from the bat to the earth is so small that the ball 
does not get a chance to rebound high in the air. 

In general, all batters who have a free swing should be Worked 



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liberally on the extreme corners. Don't give them the ball over 
the plate unless absolutely compelled to do so. 

Batters who are inclined to place the ball should be served with 
curves exactly on the opposite side of the plate to that part of the 
field to which it is most natural for them to hit. 

A batter who is a good waiter should not be trifled with. Don't 
pitch a ball that is not intended to reach some part of the plate. 
Be master over him from the start, and don't let him get on even 
terms with you if it is possible to prevent it. 



HOW TO PITCH A DROP 

By Thomas Hughes. 

When certain of a drop, a pitcher is in possession of one of the 
most valuable assets on the ball held. The manner of grasping 
the ball is identical with that employed in pitching an outcurve. 
The back of the hand must be parallel with the ground when the 
ball leaves it. 

It is the motion of pitching and the manner in which the ball 
is released that has more to do with bringing about the drop than 
anything else. The arm must be brought up high, and when 
over the shoulder at the maximum of the swing, the ball is to be 
released between the thumb and the first finger and the hand 
pulled back — try to learn to do it unconsciously — so that the ball 
is given a motion corresponding to that which is given to a bil- 
liard ball when a draw shot is being attempted. In other words, 
the ball is to be pulled from under. This will counteract the 
rotary motion when the ball has reached a certain stage in its 
flight, and cause it to settle unexpectedly toward the earth, at the 
same time bearing to the left of the home plate if the pitcher be 
right-handed. 

Left-handed pitchers, from the nature of their delivery, which 
is almost invariably attended with a long arm swing from the 
shoulder, pitch the drop ball more naturally than right-handers, 
but there are many right-hand pitchers who are among the most 
effective of the drop ball pitchers. 

Be sure that the arm is not jerked too suddenly and that the 
muscles in the shoulder feel perfectly free when the ball is 
delivered. Otherwise in time the drop ball will kill the use of the 
arm for pitching purposes. As stated before, it is one of the most 
valuable assets that can be possessed by a pitcher, and at the same 
time it has ruined many a good pitcher because he obtained the 
drop at the sacrifice .of his shoulder muscles, which were cramped 
during delivery, and after a while succumbed to the strain. 



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PITCHERS MUST BE GOOD FIELDERS 

By John McGraw. 

When I started to play professional base ball I was a pitcher, 
so that I feel that I am not out of place offering a little advice 
to the pitchers of the future. 

Bear in mind that the conditions have all changed from what 
they once were. There was a time when to be a pitcher simply 
meant to throw the ball to the batter and let the other players 
do the hard work. 

A new theory in batting has changed all that. The hit and 
run, and the sacrifice game, have made the pitcher one of the 
most prominent personages on the infield. He is as likely to 
have as many fielding chances in the game as the shortstop, and 
if he misses one of them the game may be lost with it. 

While practicing the necessary essentials to success in the box, 
do not forget to have your friends bat a few sharp hits and an 
occasional bunt or two toward you if you have that opportunity. 
Learn to deliver the ball, and at the same time be in motion 
toward the plate to pick up a bunt, if the opposing players make 
an effort to sacrifice. 

Try diving forward for the ball, picking it up with one hand, 
and throwing it — all in as much the same motion as it is possible 
for you to employ. A pitcher, who can field bunts with one hand, 
and that his throwing hand, is worth everything to a club, even 
if his curves are not as wide as those of some others. Many a 
game is lost by so called star pitchers because they are absolutely 
useless as fielders. There is not a club in the National League 
that did not have to let some pitchers go last spring because they 
ascertained on trial that they could not field bunts properly. 

Practice throwing to first base quickly, so that you will accus- 
tom your eyes to taking a line on the flight of the ball to the base 
without giving the matter a second thought. You will be sur- 
prised to see how you can learn to shoot the ball across the dia- 
mond almost by intuition. 

No one likes to see young players succeed more than I do, and 
to young pitchers I want to say that there is always a chance and 
a future of great base ball fame, if they will only try from the 
beginning to perfect themselves in the details that go to make a 
successful member of a base ball team. For that reason I desire 
to impress upon them the fact that they must be good fielders, as 
well as good pitchers if they expect to be in the first rank. 



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THE PITCHER AS A FIELDER 

By George Wiltse. 

Professional base ball and amateur base ball have changed 
greatly within the last three or four years in regard to the rela- 
tion which the pitcher bears to the other intielders. 

Once there was what might be called an implied theory that all 
the pitcher had to do was to deliver the ball. Of course if a 
batted ball came his way where he could easily handle it he 
was expected to take care of it, but in the main there was less 
activity on his part than there is now where the pitcher has come 
to be one of the mainstays of the infield. 

This is due, of course, to the changed system of ball playing, 
brought about by the batters who are up to all sorts of tricks 
and who do not confine their intention solely to efforts to knock 
the ball out of the lot. 

Every batter of pretension at the present time knows how to 
bunt. There is only one man on the field, outside of the catcher, 
who is always in a position to handle bunts properly. That man 
is the pitcher. He must be quick, alert, an accurate thrower, and 
able to deliver the ball so that he will not be anchored in the 
box after he is through with the act of pitching. 

But my purpose is not so much to define what a pitcher should 
do to take care of bunts properly, as to show how important he 
becomes in other plays of the present base ball era. 

Where base stealing has grown to its present importance in 
ball playing, the pitcher has become the factor in a play which 
is often very successful in preventing an attempt to score from 
third when a man on first essays to steal second. 

Catchers, with a deceptive motion, which makes it appear that 
thev are about to throw the ball to second base, now throw 
directly to the pitcher, deceiving the runner on third so that he 
starts for home, which is the intent of the catcher. 

The pitcher must so conduct himself in the box that he does 
not give the man on third any warning of the play. At the same 
time he must be in position to catch the ball when it is thrown 
to him by the catcher— and often it comes very fast— and be 
ready to throw home or to third immediately. The play can only 
succeed by speed- on the part of all who handle the ball, l^re- 
quently I have seen it utterly spoiled because the pitcher was ott 
his balanace or had forgotten the part he was expected to take. 
I would advise all young pitchers to experiment with the 
catcher until they are certain that they can handle the ball prop- 



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erly. The moment that they receive it they have the key to the 
whole situation. If the man on third is afraid to venture home, 
it is often possible by a quick throw to get the player trying for 
second, and twice within my observation, as I recall some games 
of the past, I have seen the second baseman not only touch the 
man out who was trying for second, but throw with such 
accuracy to the plate that he caught the runner from third, who 
had made an effort to score after he saw the ball going to 
second. 

The pitcher of the present day has also to learn in a measure 
to be a first baseman. There are some bunt hits which are better 
handled by the first baseman than by the pitcher, but it is the 
duty of the pitcher to get over to first and cover the base. The 
ball may come to him decidedly awkward, so he should learn 
to adapt himself to the possibility of catching it in all kinds of 
positions- 

Frequently hits are made to short right field which are handled 
by the first baseman, and the pitcher having no time to stop at 
first as he comes from his position on the run, must catch the 
ball on the fly as he crosses the base. This play, when properly 
executed, is one of the prettiest on the diamond, yet there are 
professional pitchers who spoil it time and again, simply because 
they make no attempt to practice the catch. Some pitchers, too, 
are heedless about touching the base and run over it or to one 
side of it and lose an opportunity to retire the batter. 

Another point is essential now to good work on the part of the 
pitcher. That is backing up first base on throws by the infielders. 
It is one of the most exasperating faults in a game to see a 
pitcher stand in the center of the diamond, when the shortstop, 
for instance, makes a wild throw, and watch the ball roll to the 
bleachers, permitting the batter to get to third, when by properly 
playing his position he would have been behind first base, and at 
least might have kept the runner on second, if he did not prevent 
him from traveling further than first. 

The pitcher is also a direct aid to the third baseman. There 
are batters who will try to chop down short hits toward third 
when a man is on second. They desire to draw the third baseman 
to the centre of the field so as to leave the base unprotected and 
assist the runner to reach it in safety. If a pitcher has thor- 
oughly studied the fine points of the game he will know that it 
is his business to look out for hits of that kind and by being 
on the jump he may be able to reach the b^ll with one hand, 
permitting the third baseman to hurry back to the bag, and pos- 
sibly be able to catch the runner if he makes the attempt to 
leave second. 

When more than one man is on the bases and an outfielder 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBKAKY. 41 

catches a fly ball it is often advisable to return it to the pitcher 
at the center of the diamond instead of throwing home to prevent 
a run being made. The pitcher . should place himself advan- 
tageously so that he can get a runner trying for third or second. 
That play has been used to great advantage both in the National 
and American leagues and should prove very efficacious in ama- 
teur games where the fly hits seldom travel the distance that they 
do in professional base ball. 

Summarized from what I have previously said, it must be evi- 
dent to every young player that the pitcher is no longer a pitching 
cipher only. He is as much a fielding part of the game as some 
of the men who are doing their best to support him and help him 
to win his game. 



HOW TO PITCH THE RAISE BALL 

By Joseph McGinnity. 

There have not been more than half a dozen professional 
pitchers who were ever really successful with the raise ball. 
There is but one who was known to pitch what was asserted by 
competent base ball authority to be a positive upshoot. He was 
Rhines, of Cincinnati. . , , 

Like the drop ball, the raise ball is a product, more of the style 
of delivery, than because of any peculiar motion given to it. It is 
the heritage of the old days of underhand pitching— when no 
curves were known— combined with the outcurve of the present 

Grasp the ball exactly as if about to pitch an outcurve. Instead 
of swinging the hand over the shoulder, drop the arm and let the 
ball be delivered from any angle in the vicinity of the knee. If 
you can start it lower than the knee, and with accuracy, so much 
the more effective the raise is likely to be. , • , 

It is not necessary to use speed. In fact, lack of speed with 
good control, are far better, for it is one of. the most difficult 
deliveries of all for the batter to gauge since he can see the ball 
floating to him all the way, and yet finds it almost out of the 
question to estimate its speed so that he can hit it effectively. 
Ninety-five times out of one hundred he will hit underneath it 
and merely lift it into the air for an easy chance to the fielders. 




No. I — Mathewson's drop curve, his most effective ball ; the two forefingers and the 
thnmb give the rotary motion necessary for the curve, while a downward swing and 
quick snap of the wrist give it the quick dropping kink. No. 2 — Mathewson's high 
in-ball ; the thumb touches the ball very lightly and the forefingers grasp it firmly. 
No. 3— The straight, swift ball ; Mathewson gets tremendous speed with this delivery; 
the arm is swung straight over the shoulder, with no wrist movement. Mathewson 
has wonderful control and rarely hits a batsman. 



SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 43 



TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR ARM 

By Frank Dwyer, 
Former Pitcher for Cincinnati. 

Many a young pitcher of promise, destined, perhaps, to be a 
star, has had a career of long usefulness ruined by lack of proper 
care of his pitching arm. It is the most valuable asset which any 
pitcher possesses, and to be the least neglectful of it invites a 
quick termination to its usefulness. 

Some pitchers, especially those who are just beginning, are 
inclined to treat a little throb of pain now and then as a trifling 
matter, which will speedily adjust itself, and there are some who 
are foolhardy enough to continue hard work on the theory that 
plenty of activity is a better remedy than a little idleness. 

My experience has been that pitchers who are reckless enough 
to do anything of the kind pave the way for a breakdown which 
makes itself manifest long before the average period at which 
all arms cease to become useful, for we know that there is a 
limit to human endurance, and that to every pitcher there must 
come a day when he is forced sadly to admit that he is no longer 
as formidable in the box as he was in the days of his prime. 

Therefore, when the first twinge comes, as a pitcher raises his 
arm to its full height to deliver the ball, my advice is to begin 
treatment at once and to continue it until the soreness has entirely 
abated. 

I believe fully in keeping the arm protected against cold winds 
and draughts, especially when it is being used. The pitcher who 
neglects to throw a sweater or a flannel jacket over his shoulder 
in the early days of spring, when the weather is inclined to be 
unsettled, or in the bleak autumn afternoons, when the wind is 
laden with rheumatism and other ailments that are signally dis- 
astrous to the muscles, omits a little care that might be worth 
many a dollar. 

Suppose a pitcher to be the owner of a healthy arm that should 
command an average salary for him of $3,000 a year for ten 
years. The total of $30,000 received for that period of active 
service in the box represents the interest on $100,000 at three per 
cent, per annum. Isn't a $100,000 arm worth looking out for? 

My advice to voung plavers is not to use the many nostrums 
which are sold to take soreness out of an arm. Too often they 
are composed of harmful drugs which do more hurt than good 
In my experience there have been at least three or four capital 



44 SPALDING'S ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 

players ruined for life as pitchers because they fairly bathed 
their pitching arms with liniment that would have taken the hair 
off a horse's hide. 

Warm water and witch hazel, as mild as they may seem to 
some, are really two excellent things for a sore arm. Witch 
hazel or hammamelis, which is much the same thing, are invalu- 
able to take soreness out of the muscles, and while domg so 
impart a freshness and a suppleness to strained tendons which 
is particularly gratifying. Warm water is weakening, but only 
temporarily so. If a pitcher will lie in a bath tub keeping his 
strained arm in the water, which must not be heated too much, 
he will find himself greatly refreshed after the experiment, 
although he must not think of using the arm under any consider- 
ation for at least three or four days, and then should begin to 
resume work very gradu?.lly. 

I have often noticed young pitchers in amateur and semi- 
professional games, who, after delivering the ball, permitted their 
pitching arm to drop and hang languidly at their side. I always 
feel like walking on the field and telling that pitcher to stop 
where he is and not throw another ball until he has given his 
arm a complete rest. The mere fact that the arm shows limpness- 
tells plainly that it has had enough and that it wants a little 
chance to recuperate. 

Young pitchers who are trying to use curves or who are mak- 
ing an effort to throw a drop ball should be careful not to jerk 
the arm from the shoulder. Get the ball away with the help of 
the body and not solely by the force of the arm. That jerking 
motion may sometimes result in a wider curve, or a quicker and 
more deceiving drop, but it is tearing away at the ligaments 
in the shoulder, and when they have lost their usefulness there 
is no remedy on earth which ever wiD out that arm in pitching 
condition again. 

It is well to wear flannel over the shoulder of the pitching 
arm in summer as well as in winter. That member of the body 
becomes very sensitive to changes of temperature after it has 
■been used a while and a little draught, scarcely noticeable at the 
time, may chill the muscles so thoroughly, if there is no pro- 
tection for them, that the arm will be ruined for a season. 

On the other hand do not go to an extreme and baby the. 
pitching arm by wrapping around it many thicknesses of flannel 
when it is not being used. I have seen pitchers do that. Only 
one thing could be expected to happen and it did. The bandages 
weakened the muscles instead of doing them good, and the 
pitchers passed out of professional life before they should had 
they exercised better judgment in taking care of what nature had 
originally bestowed upon them. 



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Spalding Professional Improved Oil Finish Bats 

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oil gradually works in and the bats keep improving. Line of models has been 
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Model D4--33 in. 36 to 40 oz. Model D8-34); in. 38to43oz. ModelD12-^35 in.40to45oz. 

Spalding Gold Medal Natural Finish Bats 

No. lOOG. Models same as our "Professional Oil Finish," but finished in a high 
French polish, with no staining. Timber is same as in our "Players' Autograph,- 
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Model N4-33 in. 36 to 40 oz. Model N8-34Vin. 38to43oz. 

SprJding bats improve with age if properly cared for. Bats made specially to 
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Model 75. 32 '.in. 44 to 48 oz. 

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and then beginning four inches from end of handle, five inches of electric tape, , 
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CATCHERS* MITTS 

Mo. 11-0. "Tlie Giant." Heavy brown leather 
I hroughout ; laced back. ' 'Stick-on-the-hand ' ' 
c>trap-and-buckle fastening. Each, $10.00 

No. 10-0. '"WOBLD SERIES ••_ Patent Molded 
Face. Brown calfskin. King Patent Felt Pad- 
ding. Laced back. "Stic-k On-the-Hand" strap- 
and-buckle fastening. ___._^ .^ „r, ..E^^IIl !?«£?. 

No. 10-OP. •"woRi»5ERies"^SameasNo. 
IQ-b, but patent perforated palm. Each, $8.00 

No. 9-0. "Three-and-Out." Patented Molded 
face; hand formed pocket. Brown calfskin; 
hair felt padding; patent laced back; leather 
Strap and brass buckle fastening. Each, $8.00 

fJo. 9.0P.** Patent "Perforated" Palm. Other- 
wise same as No. 9-0. . .^ . ; Each, $8.00 

No. 8-0. "Olympic." Palm specially prepared 

■ leather. Back and side special brown calfskin. 

Leather lace. Leather, bound edges.^ Hand 

stitched, formed padding.^ ^.^r& Each; $7.00 

No FO. • "Foxy.'* Brown calfskin". Patent 
combination shaped face: hair felt padding. 
Fox Patent Padding Pocket. ■ Extra felt sup- 
plied with mitt "Stick on the Hand" strap- 
and-buckle fastening.^^ ^^. ^^^ . ^^^ ^^^ S?nf llVi^^'^v? 

No. 7-0. "Perfection." Brown calfskin. 
Patent combination shaped face; hair felt pad- 
ding Patent laced back and thumb; leather 
lace . • • Each, $6.00 

No 6-0. "Collegiate." Molded face. Olive 

colored leather. King Patent Felt Padding 
i patent laced back and^, t^^umL ^^ E^£!?J„„f f *,?,? 

No OG. "Conqueror." Semi-molded face. 
: Brown calf, black leather bound; leather laced: 
; Heel of hand piece felt lined. Each, $5.00 

No 5-0. "League Extra." Molded face. Buff 
' colored leather, patent felt padding; Heel of 

hand piece feltjined. ;,^ j^^,^,,„^ , Each, $4.00 

No OK. "OK Model." Semi-molded, brown 
hoi^se hide face. Felt padding red leather 
edges Heel of hand piece felt hned. Ea.,$4.00 



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No. 3-0. "Decker Patent." Brown oak leather; 
patent laced back; laced at thumb. Sole leather 
Decker Patent finger protection. Each, $3.50 
No. 2-0. "Leader." Brown oak leather face, 
back and finger piece. Patent laced back; 

laced at thumb Each, $3.50 

No. 4-0. "League Special." (j„^:;;":'r1^*) Molded 
face. Brown leather; felt padding. Heel of 
hand piece felt lined. . . . Each, $3.50 

No. O. "Interstate." Brown leather face, side 

and finger piece Each, $3.00 

No. OH. "Handy." Pearl grain leather face, 
brown leather back; felt padding; laced, re- 
inforced at thumb. ... Each. $3.00 
No. OR. "Decker Patent." Black leather; 
Sole leather Becker Patent finger protection. 
Each, $2.50 
No. OA. " Inter-City." Brown cowhide face 
and finger piece, green leather back and side 
piece; red leather binding; reinforced and laced 
at thumb; natent laced back. Each, $2.50 
No. IS." ''Athletic." Large model, smoked 
horse hide face and finger piece, brown leather 
side piece and back; reinforced and laced at 
thumb; patent laced back. . . Each, $2.00 
No. IR. "^Semi-Pro." Large model; black 
grain- leather; reinforced and laced at thumb; 
patent laced back, leather lace. Each, $2.00 
No. IX. "Trade League." Large model ; face 
and finger piece buff colored leather, black lea- 
ther back and side piece; leather bound; pat- 
ent laced back. Felt padding. Each, $2.00 
No. IC. "Back-Stop." Large model; special 
gray leather face and finger piece; brown lea- 
ther side and back; padded. Each, $1.50 
No. ID. "Champion." Black leather face, 
back and finger piece, with brown leather side. 
Padded; patent laced back. , Each, $1.50 
No. lA. "Catcher." Oak leather face, back 
and finger piece, black leather side piece. 
Laced at thumb. .... Each, $1.25 
No. 2C. "Foul Tip." Oak leather. Padded; 
reinforced and laced at thumb. Each, $1.00 
No. 2R. "Association." Black leather face, 
back and finger piece. . . . Each, $1.00 
No. 3. "Amateur." Oak tanned leather face, 

back and finger piece Each, 75c 

No. 3R. " Interscholastic." Black leather face, 
back and finger piece. ... . . , Each, 75c. 

No. 4. "Public School." Large size. Brown oak '^ 
leather; reinforced, laced at thumb. Ea.,50c. ^, 

No. 4R. " Boys' Amateur." Large size. Black 
leather face and finger piece. . Each, 50c 
No. 5. "Boys' Delight." Face and finger 
piece of brown oak tanned leather. Each, 25c. 

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SPALDING INFIELDERS' GLOVES 

No. VXL. "Just Right." "Broken-In" style. Spe- 
cially treated brown, calfskin. Full leather lined. 
Welted seams. Supplied in either regular or "Cadet" 
fingers. King Patent Padding. (junl'S.Vs.o) Each, $5.00 
No. SXL. "All Players." "Broken-In" Buckskin. 
Finest material throughout. Full leather hned. Welted 
seams. King Patent Padding. (,jj:V'^:',U) ' Each, $5.00 
No. AAl. "'^»|»>tPsP*,^,?"=*" Professional model. 
Finest buckskin, specially treated to help player break 
glove into shape. Very little padding. Welted seams. 
Leather lined throughout. One of the most popular 

models. Regular padding Each, $4.00 

No. BBl. ■■'*'®K?/'iPsp'!,l?»^" Finest buckskin. Worn 
by successful National and American League infielders. 
Good width and length. Leather lined. Welted seams. 
King Patent Padding. (jo:;;';M,o) . . . Each, $4.00 
No. SS. "Leaguer." With shorter "Cadet" fingers 
than in other gloves. Best quality buckskin. Welted 
seams and leather lined all through. . Each, $4.00 
No. PX. "Professional." Felt lined. Finest buckskin, 
same as in our No. PXL glove. Padded according to 
ideas of prominent professional players who prefer 
felt to leather lining. Welted seams. Each, $3.00 
No. RXL. "League Extra." Black calfskin. Highest 
quality throughout. Design similar to No. PXL. Full 
leather lined. Welted seams. . . .. Each, $3.50 
No. PXL. "Professional." Finest buckskin. Heavily 
padded around edges and little finger. E.xtra long to 
protect wrist. Leather lined. Welted seams. Supplied 
:n regular and "Cadet" fingers. . . Each, $3.50 
;\.i. XWL. ''League Special." Specially tanned calf- 
skin. Padded with felt. Extra long to protect wrist. 
Highest quality workmanship. Full leather lined. 

Welted seams Each, $3.00 

No. 2W. "Minor League." Smoked horse hide. Pro- 
fessional model. Full leather lined. King Patent Felt 
Padding. (j„^t"S.'1',io) Welted seams. . . Each, $3.00 
No. 2XR. "Inter-City." Black calfskin. Professional 
style; padded little finger; leather strap at thumb; 
welted seams; leather lined throughout. Each, $2.50 
No. PEL. "Professional Jr." Youths' Professional 
stvle. Selected velvet tarmed buckskin. Same as No. 
PXL. Leather lined. Welted seams. Each, $2.50 
No. 2X. "League." Specially tanned pearl colored 
grain leather. Sam^ as special shortstop glove No. SS. 
Welted seams; leather lined throughout. Each, $2.50 
No. 2Y. "International." Smoked horse hide. Pro- 
fessional style, specially padded little finger, and 
leather strap at thumb; welted seams. Full leather 
lined throughout. . ...,..__. . _ E achu $ 2.50 

All the gloves detcribed above are made regularly with Web of Leather between Thumb and First 

Finger, which can be cut out very easily if not required. All Spalding Infielders' Gloves are made 

with our patented diverted seam (Patented March 10, 1908) between fingers, adding considerably 

to the durability of the gloves. ~ '' ' 

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SPALDING INFIELDERS' GLOVES 

No. 3X. "Semi-Pro." Gray buck tanned leather. Large" 
model. Correctly padded; welted seams. Leather 

lined throughout Each. $2.00 

No.4X. "Association." Brown leather. specially treated. 
Popular model. Padded little finger, and leather strap 
atthumb. Welted seams: full leather lined. Ea.,$2.00 
No.3XR. "Amateur." Black tanned leather, padded, 
large thumb. Welted seams. Leather lined. Ea.,$2.00 
No. XL. "Club Special." White leather, padded on pro- 
fessional model. Welted seams. Leather lined. $1.50 
No. XLA. "Either Hand." Worn on right or left hand. 
(Pat. Sept. 12, 1911). White tanned leather, correctly 
padded. Welted seams. Full leather lined. Each. $1.50 
No. 11. "Match." Professional style. Special tanned 
olive colored leather throughout. Welted seams; cor- 
rectly padded. Leather lined. . . . Each, $1.50 
No. ML. "Diamond." Special model. Smoked sheep- 
skin, padded. Full leather lined. . . Each, $1.50 
No.XS. "Practice." White velvet tannedleather. Welted 
seams; hiside hump. Full leather lined. Each, $1.25 
No. 1 5. "Regulation." Men's size. Brown tanned leather, 
padded. Welted seams. Palm leather lined. Ea..$1.00 
No. 1 5R. "Regulation." Men's size. Black tanned leather, 
padded; inside hump. Palm leather lined. Each, $1.00 
No. 10. "Mascot." Men's size. Olive tanned leather, 
padded. Popularmodel. Palm leather lined. Ea..$1.00 
No. X. "Special." Men'ssize. Oak tanned brown lea- 
ther. Professional model. Leather strap at thumb, 
padded. Welted seams. Leather lined. Each, $1.00 
No. XB. "Boys' Special." Boys' professional stvlo. 
White leather. Wtlted.-^eams. Lt-atherlined. Ea,$1.00 
No. 12. "Public School." Full size. White chrome lea- 
ther, padded; inside hump. Palmleatherlined. E}a.,75c. 
No. 13. "Inlerscholastic." Youths' size. Oak tanned 
brown leather. Professional model. Leather web at 
thumb; padded. Weltedseams. Leather lined. Ea..75c. 
No. 12R. "League Jr." Full size. Black tanned lea- 
ther, lightly padded, but extra long. Palm leather 
lined. Welted seams, inside hump. . . Each, 75c. 
No. 1 6. "Junior." Full size. White chrome tan ned leather, 
lightly padded.e.xtra long. Palmleatherlined. Ea.,50c. 
No. 16W. "Star." Full size. White chrome leather. 
Weltedseams; padded. Palmleatherlined. Ea., 50c. 
No. 14X. "Boys' Match." Youths' professional style. 
Special tanned wine colored leather, correctly padded 
and inside hump. Palm leather lined. . Each, 50c. 
No. 17. "Youths.'" Brown smooth tanned leather, 
padded; inside hump. Palmleatherlined. Each, 50c. 
No. 18. "Boys' Own." Oak tanned leather, padded; 
inside hump. Palm leather lined. . . Each. 25c. 

All the glovet described abov 
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f easily if not required. All Spalding Inf'.eldert* Gloves are made 
I (Pc tented March 10, 1908) between finger*, adding considerably 
to th.- durability of the gloves. 

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SPALDING BASEMEN'S MITTS 

No. ABX. "Stick-on-the-Hand." Calfskin. Laced, 
except thumb and heel. Special strap "Stick-on- 
the-Hand" with buckle at back. . Each, $5.00 
No. AAX. "First Choice" Broken-In Model. Spe- 
cially prepared leather. King Patent Padding. Lea- 
ther lace. Strap reinforcement at thumb. Ea.,$5.00 
No. AXX. "Good Fit." Brown calfskin, bound with 
black leather. Leather laced. . . Each, $4.00 
No. BXS. "League Special." Brown calfskin, 
bound with brown leather. Leather laced, except 
at heel ; leather strap support at thumb. Ea. , $4.00 
No. AXP. ■■'^OR';»f„^K«s." White tanned buck; 
leather lacing. Leather strap support at thumb. 

King Patent Padding Each, $4.00 

No. BXP. "woH^^f^.ffRFs-" Calfskin: leather lac- 
ing. Leather strap support at thumb. King 

Patent Padding Each, $4.00 

No. CO. "Professional." Specially treated calfskin. 
Padded, leather laced, except at heel. Each, $3.00 
No. ex. "Semi-Pro." Smoke colored leather face, 
brown leather back, laced all around, except at 
heel; padded at wrist and thumb. . Each, $2.50 
No. CD. "Red Oak." Tanned brown leather; red 
leather binding. Laced, except at thumb and heel, 
leather strap support at thumb. . . Each, $2.50 
No. CXR. "Amateur" Black leather face, back and 
lining. Padded; laced, except at heel. Each, $2.00 
No. CXS. "Amateur." Special tanned brown lea- 
• ther. Padded; laced, except at heel. Each, $2.00 
No. DX. "Double Play" Oak tanned leather, laced 
all around, except at heel; padded. Each, $1.50 
No. EX. "League Jr." Black smooth leather, laced all 
around, except at heel. Suitably padded. Ea.,$1.00 

All Mitts described above, patented August 9, 1910 
King Patent Padding on Nos. AAX,AXP.BXP,Pat. June 28, 1910 

" League Extra" Pitchers' and Basemen's Mitt 

No. IF. Face of tanned leather: balance of brown 
calfskin. Without hump. Leather laced. Ea., $3.50 

Spalding Fielders' Mitts 

No. 2MF. " League Special." Brown calfskin face 
and back; has finger separations of leather, extra 
full thumb, leather web; leather lined. Ea,, $3.00 
No. 5MF. "Professional." Olive leather, padded; 
finger separations; felt lined :leather web. Ea.,$2.00 
No. 6MF. "Semi-Pro." White tanned buckskin; 
' leather finger separations; leather lined; large 
thumb; well padded, and leather web. Each, $1.50 
No. 7MF. "Amateur." Pearl colored leather; finger 
separations; padded; web thumb. Each, $1.00 

No. 8F. "Amateur." Black tanned smooth leather; 
padded; leather lined; reinforced and laced at 
thumb. Strap-and-buckle fastening. Each, $1.00 
No. 9F. " League Jr." Boy's. Oak tanned leather, 
padded; reinforced and laced at thumb. Each, 50c. 

All Styles Made in Rights and Lefts. When Ordering for Left 
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SPALDING CATCHERS* MASKS 

No. 1 1-OD. "SAFETY FIRST" Double Wire, Open Vision, Elec- 
tric Welded Frame. Double wiring adds a little to the ordinary 
weight of a mask, but for the catcher who wants the best there 
is no other style worth consideration. Properly padded, including 
every up-to-date feature in construction. . . . Each, $6.00 
No. 10-OW. ••«^o^H»fS=l?/=s-" !"'r^.?rrD.^r;i; ],'!!; Special electric 
welded ■ "Open Vision" blackfinish frame, including wireearguards 
and circular opening in front. Weight is as light as consistent with 
absolute safety; padding conforms to face with comfort. Ea.,$5.00 
No. 8-0. "Open Vision." rr'',^,?,'?."ES'li:l'!S- Specially soldered 
and reinforced frame of highest quality special steel wire, black 
finish. Carefully reinforced with hard solder at joining points. 

Special wire ear guards Each, $5.00 

No. 5-0. "Open Vision" Umpires' Mask. Has neck protecting 
attachment and special eaj- protection; nicely padded. Principal 
wire crossings specially soldered. Safest and most convenient 

style ever made for umpires Each, $5.00 

No. 6-0. " Special Soldered." Principal wire crossings heavilv 
soldered. "Open Vision," extra heavy wire frame, black 
finished: continuous style padding, with soft chin-pad: special 

elastic head-band Each, $4.00 

No. 4-0. "Sun Protecting." Patent leather sun-shade, protec- 
ting eyes without obstructing view. "Open Vision," electric 
welded frame of e.xtra heavy steel wire, black finish. With soft 
chin-pad: improved design hair-filled pads, including forehead 

pad; elastic head band Each, $4.00 

No. 3-0. "Neck Protecting." Neck protecting arrangement 
affords positive protection. ' Open Vision. " electric welded, black 
finish frame; comfortable pads, with soft chin-pad and special 

elastic head-strap. ■ . Each, $3.50 

No. O-P. "Semi-Pro" League. "Open Vision. " electric welded 
best black annealed steel wire frame. Special continuous style 
side pads, leather covered; special soft forehead and chin-pad; 
elastic head-band. Each, $2.50 

SPALDING "REGULATION LEAGUE" MASKS 

No. 2-0. "Open Vision," soldered heavy black annealed steel 
wire frame. Full length side pads of improved design: soft 
fore-head and chin-pad; special elastic head-band. Each, $2.00 
No. O-X. Men's size. "Open Vision," electric welded frame, 
black finish. Improved leather covered pads, including forehead- 
pad, molded leather chin-strap; elastic head-band. Each, $1.50 
No.OXB. Youths'. "Open Vision, "electric welded frame, black 
finish. Soft side padding, forehead and chin-pad. Each, $1.50 
No. A. Men's. Electric welded black enameled frame. Leather 

covered pads, forehead and chin-pad Each, $1.00 

No. B. Youths'. Electric welded black enanieled frame: similar 
in quality throughout to No. A, but smaller in size. Each, $1.00 
No.C. Electric welded black enameled frame: soft leather covered 
pads; wide elastic head-str.ip, leather strap-and-buckle. Ea.,50c. 
No. D. Electric welded black enameled frame. Smaller in size 
than No. C. Each, 25c. 

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Meajurement Blank and full instruction* for measuring player* for uniform*. 

Spalding '"^©kS^,"* ,?F.S'=«" Uniform No. O. . Single Suit. $15.00 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding •■'«'9«^'»s ?.^5,'=*" Uniform No. OA. Single Suit, $14.00 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding "League" Uniform No. 1 Single Suit, $12.50 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team. ... . Suit, 
Spalding "League" Uniform No. lA. . . . Single 'Suit, $11.50 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding "Interscholastic" Uniform No. 2. . . Single Suit, $9.00 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding "Minor League" Uniform No. M. . Single Suit, $9.00 

.\et price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding "Gty League" Uniform No. W. . . Single Suit, $7.50 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding "Club Special" Uniform No. 3. . . Single Suit, $6.00 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding "Amateur Special" Uniform No. 4. . Single Suit, $4.00 

Net price to clubs ordering for Entire Team Suit, 

Spalding "Junior" Uniform No. 5 Single Suit, $3.00 

Net price to clubs ordering nine or more uniforms. . . Suit, 
Spalding " Youths' " Uniform No. 6. Good quality Gray material 

No larger sizes than 30-in. waist and 34-in. chest. . . Complete, 

ABOVE UNIFORMS CONSIST OF SHIRT. PANTS. CAP. BELT AND STOCKINGS. 

SPALDING BASE BALL SHOES 

No. FW. •■'«^<l!«*tPs?.f?F»" Kan- 
garoo uppers, white oak soles. Hand 
sewed; strictly bench made. Extra 
strong_soft laces. . Pair, $7.00 

Owing to the lightness and fineness of this 
shoe, it Is suitable only (or the fastest players, 
but as a light weight durable shoe for general 
use we recommend No. 30-3. 

Sizes and Weights of No. FW Shoe* 
Sixe of Shoes : 5 6 7 8 9 

Weight per pair: 18 18^ 19 20 21 oz. 

Kangaroo uppers, white oak soles. Built on our running 
Hand sewed; bench made. ' Strong laces. Pair, $7.00 

_. ^ Selected satin calfskin, substantially made. High point 

carefully tempered carbon steel plates hand riveted to heels and soles. Pair, $5.00 
No. OS. "Club Special" Sprinting. Similar to. No. 0, but made with sprinting 

St vie flexible soles. (Patented May 7, 1912) 'Pair, $5.00 

No. 35. "Amateur Special." Leather, machine sewed. High point carefully tem- 
pered carbon steel plates hand riveted to heels and soles. Pair, $3.50 * $S9.00 Doz. 
No. 37. "Junior." Leather; regular base ball shoe last. Plates hand riveted to heels 
and soles. Excellent for the money but not guaranteed. Pair, $2.50 * $27.00 Doz. 

Juvenile Base Ball Shoes 
No. 38. Made on special boys' size lasts. Good quality material throughout and 
steel plates. Furnished in boys' sizes, 12 to 5. inclusive, only. . . Pair, $2.00 

Spalding "Ori-Foot" prolongs the life of the shoe*. Can, 15c. 

T/ii- pri.rs printed in italics opposite items marked uUh -k :i'll t'e Quoted O'lly en orders {or onehaH 
dozen pairs or more at one time. Quantity prices S'OT alhruedoH items A' OT marked with -k 




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Spalding "_^o«^,pSrauES« Catchers'Body Protectors 

No. 8P. Padded stjrle. not infUted. Patented June. No. 4-0. Inflated *tyle. Strong tan covering. Spe- 
22, '09; Aug. 24. "09. Canvas cover, laced at sides. cial shoulder padduig. laced to permit readjustment 
permitting readjusting of paddmg as desired. Spe- of paddmg as desired and special body strap (Pat- 
cUI body strap EacK $10.00 ented Nov. 24. 03) Each. $10.00 

Spalding Catcher*' Body Protectors 

No. 2-0. •Minor League." Cover of durable material. 

Made in best manner. Inflated. Pull size. Each. $7.50 
No 0. "City League." Slightly narrower than No. 2-0. 

Covering of durable material. Inflated. . Eac"h, $5.00 
No. M. "Interscholastic ■ Well made. Inflated. . " 3.50 
No. 2. ■ Youths'." Good size. Inflated. . . " 3.00 

• Spalding Umpires' Body Protectors 

CJve lengtll And width when ordering Umpir**' Body Protectori. 

No. L InfUted. Large sue. best quality. Same as supplied 
to most experienced ma)or league umpires. EaA, $10.00 

No. LS. Inflated. Special light weight, very large air 
passages and without any breaks or hinges. Soft rubber 
rube instead of regular inflating valve. Not carried in 
stock, supplied on special orders only. . Each. $10.00 

No R. Inflated. Correct model. Cover of good material 
Flexible inflating tube Eich. $5.00 

Spalding Leg Guards for Base Ball Catchers 

No 33. A, - 




pplied to Roger Bresnahan 
prominent league catchers. Knee guard of molded sole 
leather; leg piece padded with reeds, light and strong; 
special ankle pads as protection from spikes Covered 
with speciaJ quality white buck dressed leather. Pair. $6.50 

Spalding Catchers' Leg Guards 



jiadded at 



id kn 



Pair. $5.00 



No. 2. 
No. I. 

shav 



Spalding Uniform Bags 

roll for packing uniforms in a manner which 
ivrinkle and soil them; with separate compart, 
shoes, etc. 
ag leather; well made. . . . . . Each. $6.00 

est heavy canvas; leather bouhd. double leather 

trap and handle Each, $3.00 

6. Brown canvas rT>ll, leather straps and handle. " 1.50 
5. Combined Uniform and Bat Bag. Similar to reguUr 
niform bags, but with extra compartment to carry one 
at Best canvas, leather bound. . . . Each. $4.00 
4. Individual Uniform Bag. Best quality brown can- 
vas; two leather handles; strap-and-buckle fastenings 
Holds suit, shoes and other necessary articles. Each. $2.00 

Spalding Bat Bags 

No. 2. Heavy waterproof canvas, leather reinforced at both 

ends, and leather handles; holds. 12 bats. . Each. $3.50 

No. 3. Similar to No. 2. but holds only 6 bau. " 2.50 

Spalding Individual Bat Bags 

No. 01. Good quality heavy leather bat bag. for two bats; 

used by most league players. Each, $4.00 if S-t3.M Do2. 
No. 02. Extra heavy canvas ; heavy leather cap at both 

ends Each, $2.00 •>$?/.6^Z)^?. 

No. SI. Sheepskin, good quality bag. with heavy leather 

end Each, $1,75* j7j'.9i7Z?<7j. 

No. 03. Heavy canvaa; leather cap at both ends. 
_ No.8 ^^«^ Each. $1.00 *j7<^.<fi:7iP^.j. 

The prices Printed iiTitalieJ opposite \ums ^ Spalding Special Club Bat Bag 

marked with * -Jjill iv quoted only on orders No. 8. Heavy canva*, with strong reinforcing strips run- 

Jor one-fialf dosen or more at one time. ning lengthwise, and heavy lecher ends. Holds 26 to 

Quantity prices 7\OT_allo-jued on items' 30 bat*.' Each, $18.00 

NOT 'nijrkej"with ♦ Lotteriat oa any of abovo bags •lira, Pricoa oa appliotioo. 



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TO ANY COMMONICATIQNSI 

ODBESSEDTilUS 



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STORES IN ALL LARGE CITIES 



COHPIETEUSTOFSTOKS 

ON INSIDE FMNTCOVa 

Of THIS BOO! 



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s'S^^mffllTHESPALDINGl 



TRADE-MARK TuZrf 



Spalding Base Ball Bases' 

Complete with Straps «nd Spikea 

No. OL. Special League Bates, filled, very heavy quilted 

canvas. EacK base fitted with two extra strong . harness 

leather straps and three extra heavy 14 inch special 

spikes. Used by the btg league and college clubs. 

Set of 3. $7 SO 
No. 0. League Club Bases, filled, extra quality can%as. 
quUted. Harness leather straps. . . . Set of 3, $6,00 
No. 1. Canvas Basas. &lled. well made: not quilted. 

Set of 3. $5.00 

No. Z. Canvas Bates, filled, good quality. Set of 3. 3,50 

No. 4, Unfilled Canvas Bases, laced. May be filled with 

•and^or other material. Canvas straps. Set of 3, $1,00 

No. S, Quilled SuH Canvaa Bates, without straps. 

Set of 3. 1.00. 

Spalding Pitchers' Box Plates " 

'No. 3. Made in accordance with National League regula* 
bona; extra qualiiy white rubber. W.th pin.. Each. $5,00 

No. 2. Composition material, re^l^tion aize and shape. 
With pin.. E:ach,43.50 

Spaldinfl: Rubber Home Plates 

No. 1. In accordance with the National League're^lations. 
. Extra quality white rubber. With pin.. . Each. $7.50 
No. C. Composition material, regulation .ue and shape. 
"' ■' E^ch. $5.00 

Spaldingr Improved 
St^l Shoe Plates 

t'e do not sell separately the 
quality base ball shoe 
plates used on our best grade 
shoe., but we will refit .hoes 
of our own make with .teel 




Top View. No. OL 






Spilit 



Extra Straps and Spikes 



I Bases. . . , 



Each, 7Si. 
• SOc. 
•• 4Cc 
•• 20c 
•• lOc. 



. With I 




Ho. JO 



No. 4-0 



pla 



and charge. 





.Oandl 



ThU price Joes not incluJt transportation -. 

charges on thoea. 

No. 3-0. Toe Plates, high point carbon steel. 

carefully tempered and ground. Pair, 50c. 

No. 4-0. Heel Plates, high point carbon stecL 

carefully tempered and ground. Pair, SOc 

No. 0/ Toe Plates, hftrdened steel, shar-' 

pened Pair. 25c 

No. 2-0. Heel plates, hardened steel. sbarpene<}. ** 2Sc, 
No. I. Toe plates, good steel, sharpened. ** 10c' 

No. IH. Heel plates, good steel sharpened. ** lOc^ 

Spalding Pitchers', Toe Plates 

A thorough protection to shoe and of great^ 

assistance in pitching. Made for right of 

left shoe. when ordering, specify for' 

which shoe required. 

Regular style Each, 25e. 

Regular style " 2Sc 

No BS. Brasa Cut low. Light weight. Particularly for 
Qlt^hers and shortstops who do oot drag their feet. Each. 25^ 

Spalding 
Movable Batting Cage 

Can be moved to any part of the 
field quickly and easily by simply 
pushing the rear handle, yet when 
it IS in position it is absolutely rigid 
Made with heavy frame of japanned 
iron piping No intricate parts to 
gel out of order Simple construc- 
tion; strongly made Used on nearly 
every major league field besides on 
those of the more prominent colleges. 
This photograph show. Eddie Collins 
of the Philadelphia "Athletic'at bat- 




cthet 



of tbe World Series ga 
with tarred nets, and 
infor cement at botton 



.ple.e 




Straps for Nos. OL 

Straps for No. I Bases. 

Straps for No. 2 Bases. .- . , .j, .. j-.i. 

Spikes lor Nos. OL and Bas<». , J 

Spikes for No. I Bases. . . ^ . „ 

Spikea for No. 2 Buea. ..... .^ " 5c 

Spalding 
Fred Clarke Sun Classes 

Classes are made with an attach- 
nent that hinges on to tho cap and 
an be turned up out of the way 

when not needed. 

■io. 2. Fred Oarke Sun Classes. 

Complete with attachment for 

(aalening to cap. Pair. $10.00 

Price doti not Inctudt cap' 

Spalding Regular Sun Glasses for Outfielders 

No. 1. Good quality metal (ramea. Complete with case 
^ Pair, $1.00 

Spaldingr 
Score Books 

Spalding Base Ball Score 
Books arc made in three 
styles: Morse style (Nos. 
1.3,4. 5 and M): A. C. 
Spalding style (Nos. 2 ai 
Foster style (No, F). 

Pocket Score Book* 

No. 1. Paper, 7 games. Morse style Each. 10c 

No. 2. Board. 22 games. A. G. Spalding style. " 25c. 

■ No. 3. Board, 46 games. Morse style •* SOc 

No, S. Board. A. C Spalding style, 79 games, " 75c 

No. M. Board. Morse style. 79 games. ... " 7Sc 

No. F. Board. Foster style. 79 games. 4 . , , " 7Sc 

' '**-* "^ aub Score Book* ' 

No. 4. Baard,eHxlOMm..30games,MorsestyIe. ea.,$1.00 
No. 5. Board. 6^8 x iOH in.. 79 games. Mor*e style. " 1.50 

Scoit Cardi,.^^ ,_^ Each, 5c E)oz, .25 

Spalding Umpire Indicator 

Nop. Made 



League umpire*, ^r . - Each. SOc 

, -- • -. . ,■• .' < 

Spalding Scoring Tablet 

No. 2. A simple. 




Ej>ch. $60.00 

Spaldlnfl Complete Catalogue 



nbe carried i 

ol Athletic goods Mailed Free. 



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OMINSlBEFRONf COVER 
- OF THIS Boot 



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standard Policy 



A Stcindard QyeJity must be inseparably linked to a Standard Policy. 

Without a definite and Standard Mercantile Policy, it is impossible for a 
Manufacturer to long maintaun a Standard Quality. 

To market his goods through the jobber, a manufacturer must provide a 
profit for the jobber as well as for the retail dealer. To meet these conditions 
of DueJ Profits, the manufacturer is obliged to set a proportionately high list 
price on his goods to the consumer. 

To enable the glib salesman, when booking his orders, to figure out 
attractive profits to both the jobber and retailer, these high list prices are 
absolutely essential ; but their real purpose will have been served when the 
manufacturer has secured his order from the jobber, and the jobber has secured 
his order from the retailer. 

However, these deceptive high list prices are not fair to the consumer, who 
does not, and, in reality, is not ever expected to pay these fancy list prices. 

When the season opens for the sale of such goods, with their misleading 
but alluring high list prices, the retailer begins to realize his responsibiHties, and 
grapples with the situation as best he can, by offering "special discounts," 
^hich vary with local trade conditions. 

Under this system of merchandising, the profits to both the manufacturer 
and the jobber are assured ; but as there is no stability maintained in the prices 
to the consumer, the keen competition amongst the local dealers invariably 
leads to a demoralized cutting of prices by which the profits of the retailer are 
practically eliminated. 

This demorcdization always reacts on the manufacturer. The jobber insists 
on lower, and still lower, prices. The manufacturer, in his turn, meets this 
demand for the lowering of prices by the only way open to him, viz.: the cheap- 
ening and degrading of the quality of his product. 

The foregoing conditions became so intolerable that 16 years ago, in 1899, 
A. G. Spalding & Bros, determined to rectify this demoralization in the Athletic 
Goods Trade, and inaugurated what has since become known as "The Spalding 
Policy." 

"The Spalding Policy" eliminates the jobber entirely, so far as Spalding 
Goods are concerned, and the retail dealer secures the supply of Spalding 
Athletic Goods direct from the manufacturer by which the retail dealer is 
assured a fair and legitimate profit on all SpaJding Athletic Goods, and the 
consumer is assured a Standard Quality and is protected from imposition. 

"The Spalding Policy" is decidedly for the interest and protection of the 
users of Athletic Goods, and acts in two ways : 

First.— The user is assured of genuine Official Standard Athletic Goods. 

Second.— As manufacturers, we can proceed with confidence in 
purchasing at th« proper time, the very best raw materials required 
in the manufacture of our various goods, well ahead of their 
respective seasons, and this enables us to provide the necessary 
quantity and absolutely maintain the Spalding Standard of Quality. 

All retciil dealers handling Spalding Athletic Goods are requested to supply 
consumers at our regular printed catalogue prices — neither more nor less— the same 
prices that sirnilar goods are sold for in our New York, Chicago and other stores. 
1 All Spalding dealers, as well as users of Spalding Athletic Goods, are treated 
/exactly alike, and no special rebates or discriminations are allowed to anyone. 

This briefly, is "The Spalding Policy," which has already been in successful 
operation for the past 16 yejirs, and will be indefinitely continued. 

In other words, "The Spalding Policy" is a "square deal" for everybody. 

A. G. SPALDING & BROS. 



1,^ 



By ^iJ/i^^-^^^:^^^* 



standard Quality 



An article that is universally given the appellation "Standard" is thereby 
conceded to be the criterion, to which are compared all other things of a similar 
nature. For instance, the Gold Dollar of the United States is the Standard unit 
of currency, because it must legally contain a specific proportion of pure gold, 
and the fact of its being Genuine is guaranteed by the Government Stamp 
thereon. As a protection to the users of this currency aigainst counterfeiting and 
other tricks, considerable money is expended in maintaining a Secret Service 
Bureau of Experts. Under the lav*r, citizen manufacturers must depend to a 
great extent upon Trade-Marks and similar devices to protect themselves against 
counterfeit products— v^rithout the aid of "Government Detectives'* or "Public 
Opinion" to assist them. 

Consequently the "Consumer's Protection" against misrepresentation and 
"inferior quality" rests entirely upon the integrity and responsibility of the 
" Manufacturer." 

A. G. Spalding & Bros. have, by their rigorous attention to "Quality," for 
thirty-nine years, caused their Trade-Mark to become known throughout 
the world as a Guarantee of Quality as dependable in their field as the 
U. 5. Currency is in its field. 

The necessity of upholding the Guarantee of the Spalding Trade-Mark and 
maintaining the Standard Quality of their Athletic Goods, is, therefore, as obvi- 
ous as is the necessity of the Government in maintaining a Standard Currency. 

Thus each consumer is not only insuring himself but also protecting other 
consumers when he assists a Reliable Manufacturer in upholding his Trade- 
Mwk and all that it stands for. Therefore, we urge all users of our Athletic 
Goods to assist us in maintaining the Spalding Standard of Excellence, by 
insisting that our Trade-Mark be plainly stamped on all athletic goods which 
they buy, because without this precaution our best efforts towards maintaining 
Standard Quality and preventing fraudulent substitution will be ineffectual. 

Manufacturers of Standard Articles invariably suffer the reputation of being 
high-priced, and this sentiment is fostered and emphasized by makers of 
"inferior goods," with whom low prices are the main consideration. 

A manufacturer of recognized Standard Goods, with a reputation to uphold 
and a guarantee to protect must necessarily have higher prices than a manufac- 
turer of cheap goods, whose idea of and basis of a claim for Standard Quality 
depends principally upon the eloquence of the salesman. 

We know from experience that there is no quicksand more unstable than 
povwty in quality — and we avoid this quicksand by Standard Quality. 



ff^y^H^^ 




LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




ATHLETIC I,l„.?.??? Ml_Sr»'* 



A separate book covers every Athletic Sport 

and is Official and Standard 

Price 10 cents each 



GRAND PRIZE 



GRAND PRIX 





PARIS. 1900 



ST.L0UiS.1904 W It .A JL/l-ll W 1J PARIS. 1900 

ATHLETIC GOODS 

ARE THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD 



A.G. Spalding ® Bros. 

MAINTAIN WHOLESALE ond RETAIL STORES in the FOLLOWING CITIES 
NEW YORK CHICAGO ST. LOUIS 

BOSTON MILWAUKEE KANSAS CITY 

PHILADELPHIA DETROIT SAN FRANCISCO 

NEWARK CINCINNATI LOS ANGELES 

ALBANY CLEVELAND SEATTLE 

BUFFALO COLUMBUS SALT LAKE CITY 

SYRACUSE INDIANAPOLIS PORTLAND 

ROCHESTER PITTSBURGH Ml NNEAPOLIS 

BALTIMORE WASHINGTON ATLANTA ST PAUL 



BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 
LONDON, ENGLAND 

LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND 
BIRMINGHAM. ENGLAND 
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND 
EDINBURGH. SCOTLAND 
GLASGOW. SCOTLAND 



LOUISVILLE DENVER 
NEW ORLEANS DALLAS 
MONTREAL. CANADA 
TORONTO. CANADA 
PARIS. FRANCE 
SYDNEY. AUSTRALIA 



toriex o\\n9d and operoted J)y A.G.Spaldiny & Bros, and w/)ere ell of Spaldtnji 
rode -Marked Athletic Goods are made are located in the following cities 



NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO CHICOPEE, MASS. 
BROOKLYN ^ BOSTON PHILADELPHIA LONDON, ENG 



